Public Land Sales Return in Scaled-Back Form in Trump Tax Bill

A new version of a plan to sell vast tracts of public lands to help pay for President Donald Trump’s massive package of tax cuts has been added back into the Senate’s latest version of the package.

The plan, which would mandate the sale of as much 1.2 million acres of Interior Department land for housing or “community development” across 11 western states, represents a blow to conservationists staunchly opposed to the measures.