Breaking news 🚨 Sen. Mike Lee has introduced an amendment to the Interior appropriations bill that would remove language preventing the sale of America’s national parks and other protected lands. “By taking dead aim at our national parks, Sen. Lee is declaring war on the most beloved public lands in America,” said Randi Spivak, public lands policy director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Lee somehow didn't learn from his last failed attempt to auction off our public lands to private interests, but he's going to lose twice as hard this time. America’s national parks are not for sale, and Americans will again stand up and loudly defend our nation’s beautiful crown jewels from this despicable attempt to privatize and destroy them.” Sen. Lee’s amendment could pave the way for the Trump administration to sell off national parks to the highest bidder. As currently written, the bill would bar the Department of the Interior from selling national park units, a provision that was ...