Even Maga is angry at the dream of Tech Bros in the federal landflow to create new cities

In recent years, a cadre of technical billionaires has become obsessed with a very unconventional idea: the creation of new private royal cities. It is called a name The “Freedom Cities” movementSupporters say they want to create new special development areas in the United States that would allow the construction of these cities. In these areas, private sector investors can write their own laws and prepare their governance structures. According to supporters of this project, such societies will be controlled negatively and will not include traditional bureaucracy. Of course, to do all this, developers will need a lot of land.

“Freedom City” has found its legislative champion in the form of Senator Mike Lee, a member of the Senate deeply out of touch, from Utah. In recent months, he gave me a ruling on a “beautiful, beautiful bill” for Trump, which would have achieved the dream of technical billionaires one step from reality: a bill for me had been offered on an area of ​​1.2 million acres of federal lands that were sold by the Land Management Office and then developed for “well -known housing” and other special interests. Many of that land, some of which sit next to some of the most popular national parks in the country, It could have been obtained from 11 Western states.

Perhaps I was aware of how his proposals were not popular, I had trying to cram this policy without any kind of public comments. American progress Note that A bill for me requires “some consultation with local ruling, governors and tribes”, but it was offered otherwise “there is no opportunity for public inputs.”

However, I made it effort I have been officially stumbled. During the weekend, Senator withdrew his rule from Trump Megabel because of the ongoing opposition within Congress – including conservative legislators in the western states. These lawmakers, including Republicans from Montana, Idahu, Washington, California, and Oregon, were planning to empty the entire Trump bill if it remained a ruling inside it. “We cannot accept the sale of federal lands that Senator is looking for for me,” the lawmakers wrote in A message sent last week. Instead of being the reason for Trump’s legislation stumbling, put me a tail between his legs and Withdrawing the ruling on Saturday.

“During the past few weeks, I spent a lot of time listening to members of society, local leaders and stakeholders throughout the country,” He wrote on x on Saturday. “While there was a huge amount of wrong information – and in some cases, explicit lies – about my bill, many people made honest fears.”

Currently, millions of Americans can breathe a group a sigh of relief. The National Association for the Preservation of Gardens He said that The draft law, if it had passed, had opened the federal lands directly adjacent to the National Development Gardens – a policy that could lead to luxury housing or hotels being built next to horizons such as Zion National Park.

Almost no one wants this thing to happen. In addition to fears of Lee’s colleagues, a A modern poll Colorado College has found that among several thousand people surveyed in the western states, the vast majority of them support protection for public lands, and they are more interested in conservation efforts than development. In fact, even Trump’s voters went out to be the proposal. “The strong majority of Western voters-including the” Maga “voters who have been identified themselves-supports policies that focus on protecting and preserving public lands and opposing policies that will open public lands until drilling, mining or any other development,” I found opinion polls.

It was the furniture in Maga in the Viral – who spoke to live in rural societies – The explicit disturbance plan for me To privatize public lands. In fact, Cameron Hans, who is lying in a voice with a long and detailed videos, launched detailed videos that exceeded a draft law for me. “Everything is saying,” Hans He says in one videoPraying that Lee was publishing “wrong information” about who criticized the bill. Hans notes that “in fact both sides of the corridor – it is left and right” hates the proposal. In addition, Hans urged his followers to “please contact (Congress) and make us impossible to ignore it.” He added: “The collective voice of the ordinary American is our only hope.”

It is not difficult to know the reason for criticizing people like Hans from a proposal to me, like Note the American progress that “It is possible that well -loved entertainment spots, popular areas for hunting, fishing, wildlife habitats, and even sacred or historical sites.”

Although the aggressive interest from most Americans, the lobby to create a network of billionaires in technology is still valid, and the efforts made to cancel the organization and develop public lands are still continuing. This is worrying, given that this is the government that does not care much about the environment. In fact, the Trump administration recently Dozens of millions of acres are opened in national forests To a possible registration. It only appears, you cannot keep a bad idea (as long as the idea belongs to a billionaire).