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Senators John Hickenlooper (D-CO) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) sponsored S.Amdt. 2107 to H.Con.Res. 14, the FY25 House Budget Resolution, to prevent Congress from using the proceeds from public land sales to reduce the federal deficit. This amendment would safeguard our nation’s most treasured public lands by ensuring that they are not sold off to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. Efforts to sell and privatize public lands to benefit extractive industries and real estate developers is a direct threat to the rights of all Americans to access nature, have clean air to breathe and water to drink, and to safeguard their culture and history. The sell off of public lands would forever alter the nation’s landscape, devastate wildlife and biodiversity, and risk nearly 400,000 jobs and over $45 billion in direct economic output, in addition to the over 5 million jobs and $1.2 trillion of the entire outdoor recreation economy. On April 5, the Senate rejected this amendment by a vote of 48-51 (Senate roll call vote 181). YES IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE.
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