Can the New Right be warmed up to Sen. Lee’s plan to sell off public lands?

Utah Senator Mike Lee wanted to sell less than one percent of non-conservation status public lands to alleviate housing shortages and reduce federal debt.

The Senate Parliamentarian ruled the public land sale provision ineligible for the reconciliation procedure under which the BBB was being handled.

The New Right’s resounding answer has been hell no, and he has beaten a hasty retreat.

Senator Lee should introduce a New Frontier Homestead Act of 2026 , says Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer: Western half of the U.S. should be open to technologically feasible settlement in the same way the Eastern half was.

New towns that could grow into new cities would foster the Golden Age that everyone is tweeting about, Zelizer says.

The New Frontier Homestead Act would allow people to enter a lottery to be awarded 40 acres of public land.

Natural-born citizens would be eligible to enter the lottery to get the land.

If they develop to benchmarks within five years , the government grants them title upon payment of processing costs.

Writers: We idolize the pioneer spirit of those homesteaders who made something out of nothing and built a nation.