Nov 2026 DOI Strategic Plan includes sales of public land. Here we go again...

[COEngineer]

Nov 2026 DOI Strategic Plan
From Page 16:
"The Department will work to decrease the size of the federal estate by offering to states, localities and Tribes the opportunity to purchase federal lands."

When will these people learn? 90+% of Americans oppose public land sales and these clowns just keep going. They are stuck in a hole and just keep digging.

 

[SerialScience]

“Conservation means development…”

Not sure you need to read past that to understand how these republicans view our public lands.

 

[WIdave]

This is frustrating as hell.

 

[KMO385]

Its like they're oblivious to the election results that just occurred.

 

[WIdave]

Or they think sell now why they are still there.

 

[KMO385]

Or they think sell now why they are still there.

Thats probably it. I'm not a political guy but it seems the Republicans need to rethink the horse there riding.

 

[Nunjagottam]

Or they think sell now why they are still there.

THIS!
Anybody with an IQ >80ish knows the uni-party playbook.
Repubs just got their ass handed to them and they will be in their prefered minority position (where thy pander to 2A and less tax "but our hands are tied"") for the next couple election cycles. So, now they push this policy forward knowing that they can secure the necessary dem votes needed to pass this bullshit because by the next election cycle the dems will be able to point back and say "that was under the Republican administration/majority" none of these fugs GAF about the public part of Public Lands. Its all theater.

 

[Nick87]

none of these fugs GAF about the public

 

[Beignet]

Well, that’s dumb and I’m not surprised these farts published this. But, since I’m usually inarticulate I asked the AI overlords to give me a summary of what this means in terms of congressional power.

“Congress plays no approval role in ordinary BLM land sales. Its formal role is limited, and its real power comes from passing laws.

• Under 2,500 acres: Congress has no formal role. The Secretary can sell land identified for disposal in a land use plan, at fair market value, after public notice.
• Over 2,500 acres: The Secretary must notify both chambers and wait 90 days in session. The sale goes ahead unless Congress adopts a concurrent resolution of disapproval, which needs both chambers and skips the President. That kind of veto is likely unconstitutional. NMA v. Zinke struck down the matching provision for withdrawals under §204, though no court has ruled on the sales provision in §203. In practice it's notice and wait.
• Blocking a sale: Congress would need an ordinary law, subject to a presidential veto. It can also add an appropriations rider, use the Congressional Review Act against the land use plan amendment that made the parcel eligible, or apply oversight pressure.
• Forcing a sale: Congress can pass a statute that authorizes or orders specific sales, overriding FLPMA's normal process.

A DOI strategic plan doesn't change any of this. It sets goals but gives no authority to sell.”

@Nunjagottam - I’m not as active as I once was on here (kids and chit), so I don’t know your previous username. But what makes you believe voting to advance any land sale agenda is anything that congressional Democrats would vote in favor of? Heck, even Republicans here in Montana at least pay lip service to not transferring public lands. Seems like if a big sale were to happen it’d possibly get the dual chamber veto from a Democratic Congress then challenged in a stacked district court. Or, they block a sale through an act and it gets veto’d and a buddy of the President gets all of Utah to himself or whatever they’re up to.

 

[Greybeard]

Trump Plans to Sell Public Land, Reducing Size of Federal Estate

The Trump administration has formally said it plans to sell public lands as part of a plan to reduce the size of the federal estate.

finance.yahoo.com

 

[338win]

And those morons wonder why they lost? I am more concerned that they are too corrupted to care and exist only to do to the US what PE has done to every great brand that went public.