A reliable conservative senator faces cancellation for listening to voters. But the real threat to public lands comes from the last presidentβs backdoor globalist agenda.
Something ugly is unfolding on social media, and most people arenβt seeing it clearly. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) β one of the most constitutionally grounded conservatives in Washington β is under fire for a housing provision he first proposed in 2022.
You wouldnβt know that from scrolling through X. According to the latest online frenzy, Lee wants to sell off national parks, bulldoze public lands, gut hunting and fishing rights, and hand Americaβs wilderness to Amazon, BlackRock, and the Chinese Communist Party. None of that is true.
Leeβs bill would have protected against the massive land-grab thatβs already under way β courtesy of the Biden administration.
I covered this last month. Since then, the backlash has grown into something like a political witch hunt β not just from the left but from the right. Even Donald Trump Jr., someone I typically agree with, has attacked Leeβs proposal. Heβs not alone.
Time to look at the facts the media refuses to cover about Leeβs federal land plan.
What Lee actually proposed
Over the weekend, Lee announced that he would withdraw the federal land sale provision from his housing bill. He said the decision was in response to βa tremendous amount of misinformation β and in some cases, outright lies,β but also acknowledged that many Americans brought forward sincere, thoughtful concerns.
Because of the strict rules surrounding the budget reconciliation process, Lee couldnβt secure legally enforceable protections to ensure that the land would be made available βonly to American families β not to China, not to BlackRock, and not to any foreign interests.β Without those safeguards, he chose to walk it back.
Thatβs not selling out. Thatβs leadership.
It's what the legislative process is supposed to look like: A senator proposes a bill, the people respond, and the lawmaker listens. That was once known as representative democracy. These days, it gets you labeled a globalist sellout.
The Biden land-grab
To many Americans, βpublic landβ brings to mind open spaces for hunting, fishing, hiking, and recreation. But thatβs not what Sen. Mike Leeβs bill targeted.
His proposal would have protected against the real land-grab already under way β the one pushed by the Biden administration.
In 2021, Biden launched a plan to βconserveβ 30% of Americaβs lands and waters by 2030. This effort follows the United Nations-backed β30 by 30β initiative, which seeks to place one-third of all land and water under government control.
Ask yourself: Is the U.N. focused on preserving your right to hunt and fish? Or are radical environmentalists exploiting climate fears to restrict your access to American land?
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As it stands, the federal government already owns 640 million acres β nearly one-third of the entire country. At this rate, the government will hit that 30% benchmark with ease. But it doesnβt end there. The next phase is already in play: the β50 by 50β agenda.
That brings me to a piece of legislation most Americans havenβt even heard of: the Sustains Act.
Passed in 2023, the law allows the federal government to accept private funding from organizations, such as BlackRock or the Bill Gates Foundation, to support βconservation programs.β In practice, the law enables wealthy elites to buy influence over how American land is used and managed.
Moreover, the government doesnβt even need the landownerβs permission to declare that your property contributes to βpollination,β or βphotosynthesis,β or βair qualityβ β and then regulate it accordingly. You could wake up one morning and find out that the land you own no longer belongs to you in any meaningful sense.
Where was the outrage then? Where were the online crusaders when private capital and federal bureaucrats teamed up to quietly erode private property rights across America?
American families pay the price
The real danger isnβt in Mike Leeβs attempt to offer more housing near population centers β land that would be limited, clarified, and safeguarded in the final bill. The real threat is the creeping partnership between unelected global elites and our own government, a partnership designed to consolidate land, control rural development, and keep Americans penned in so-called β15-minute cities.β
BlackRock buying entire neighborhoods and pricing out regular families isnβt by accident. Itβs part of a larger strategy to centralize populations into manageable zones, where cars are unnecessary, rural living is unaffordable, and every facet of life is tracked, regulated, and optimized.
Thatβs the real agenda. And itβs already happening , and Mike Leeβs bill would have been an effort to ensure that you β not BlackRock, not China β get first dibs.
I live in a town of 451 people. Even here, in the middle of nowhere, housing is unaffordable. The American dream of owning a patch of land is slipping away, not because of one proposal from a constitutional conservative, but because global powers and their political allies are already devouring it.
Divide and conquer
This controversy isnβt really about Mike Lee. Itβs about whether we, as a nation, are still capable of having honest debates about public policy β or whether the online mob now controls the narrative. Itβs about whether conservatives will focus on facts or fall into the trap of friendly fire and circular firing squads.
More importantly, itβs about whether weβll recognize the real land-grab happening in our country β and have the courage to fight back before itβs too late.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.