In short, having huge numbers of Americans complain to Congress, as with this piece of legislation, can influence laws at the margin.
The rest of the bill is still awful; it imposes new and large taxes on wind and solar while eliminating subsidies for them, funds a the deportation of millions, cuts medicaid sharply (in large part through imposing onerous paperwork on people) and cuts taxes for billionaires while raising them on the poor.
Mormons. Lee is a Mormon. The Mormon church has >$250 billion in its coffers, and Utah is more than 70% public land.
If they forced a public land selloff, the church could buy every acre of it and turn Utah into their own little religious ethnostate.
That’s been a fantasy of theirs since the 1840s
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Deseret
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