Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez Masto tried again and failed in 2024. Her proposal to sell off tens of thousands of acres of desert around Las Vegas did not make it out of Congress and onto President Biden’s desk.
This legislation inevitably…
The federal government allows only one state in the west to profit from public land sales, and it happens to be the driest: Nevada. The policy’s legacy is one where billions of dollars flow into government coffers to pay…