Andrew Sage

And what Lee does is he uses whatever terminology he thinks will make people support this crusade he has.

against lands owned by the public for everyone to access.

The last time he tried to wrap it up in language about affordable housing.

If you read the bill, you would have seen that it wasn't going to result in any affordable housing.

This time he's wrapping it up in the language of border security.

And this is where we're going to return to the defining political question of our time, who is president?

Because Lee, who introduced the bill in October of 2025, said, and I quote,

Biden's open border chaos is destroying Americans' crown jewels.

Families who want to enjoy a safe hike or camp out are instead finding trash piles, burned landscapes and trails closed because rangers are stuck clearing up the fallout.

Cartels are exploiting the disorder, using these lands as cover for their operation.

This bill gives land managers and border agents

the tools to restore order and protect these places for the people they were meant to serve.

Diligent observers will notice that Biden is no longer the president of the United States.

And further diligent observers will notice that many people currently working for the federal government on public lands are being laid off or furloughed due to the government shutdown.

What Lee's bill would do is allow DHS to identify illegal roads in public land areas and then to upgrade them to navigable roads.

This is important because the 1964 Wilderness Act doesn't allow motorized access to wilderness areas.

And what Lee is proposing is that

they would identify these illegal roads within a hundred mile zone.

He is proposing a blanket change to the 1964 Wilderness Act to allow the construction of roads, which would completely change the nature of wilderness in the United States.

And like,