Americans, do you support selling public lands to pay for Trump agenda?

[Cubus]

Congressional Republicans are mulling the sale of some public lands to help pay for a massive bill to enact President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda, according to lawmakers aware of the discussions.

House Natural Resources Chair Bruce Westerman said one concept under review would involve selling some lands around Western cities or national parks to build more housing.

“It would just be in areas where you can’t get affordable housing, like for gateway communities,” said Westerman in an interview, “so you could actually have people to work in the national parks, maybe around some big metropolitan areas in the West.”

Source:https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/04/02/congress/gop-weighs-public-land-sales-to-offset-trump-agenda-00267397

[Syntosi]

That is a terribly stupid idea. First of all, it would not be enough. Trump is running possibly the biggest deficit in US history, no amount of selling lands will make even a slightest dent in that. Secondly, there are usually very good reasons why the government owns that land and its usually to prevent corporations from getting their greedy little mittens on it.

[Cubus]

I believe it was never meant to pay for the entire deficit, just a part of it.

[Syntosi]

Its going to pay around the same percentage as if Trump had part-timed at McDonalds for his presidency and donated that amount.

[Dargil]

Yes, I do, so long as they are sold to American investors.

[alice55]

Américains are so weird they got the most crazy idea

[Cubus]

Americans may be weird, but they are first and fore most capitalists.

[alice55]

True they don’t have good healthcare for poor people though 😅
And i feel like they re pretty extrémist like one side being full left and the other full republican, in France we have both side too but people are ways less extreme (extreme those that riot 😹)

[Cubus]

Do you "full right" politicians except Zeymour?

[alice55]

There s no extreme / full right in France to be honest, Zeymour is the one of is the most far right and LePen is pretty tame compared to before, she s pretty much just a right part (which is weird cause she lost quite a fews person because of it, her most extreme fan went to zeymour but he pretty much have no chance to ever pass).
Zeymour is the only full right but he s not very popular.

[Cubus]

Is Le Pen right of center on anything except immigration?

[alice55]

The only right stuff she have is immigration and support to CEO / Boss all her others stuff are either left or centrist. I admit I haven't followed her too much lately as I find her ways too tame compared to before. She's trying to gain vote by being more centrist.

[Cubus]

Yeah, that's why I don't understand why media constantly call her "far-right"

[alice55]

It's just for her position on immigration literally just this also they need to make her not popular because theyre afraid she'll win so they make it look as if she's a nazi, it's literally just propaganda. We truly don't have any far right politics in France, I would say Zemmour is more of a regular right than anything.
I wonder how are far right party like in Poland?

[Cubus]

This party is usualy called "far-right"
en.m.wikipedia.org/.../Confederation_Liberty_and_Independence

It's an alliance of two parties: New Hope (previously known as KORWIN from the name of its founder) and National Movement. First ones are right-libertarians/paleolibertarians and the latter ones are nationalists. There also used to be third party, led by Grzegorz Braun (you may have heard about him, he was the one to extinguish hannukah with a fire extinguisher) which is a party of traditional Catholics and monarchist (they want to turn Poland into kingdom and introduce Jesus Christ as a king) but they were expelled some time ago. Officialy because Braun run for president seperately, which risks splitting the vote, behind the doors, because they considered them too radical.

The establishment conservarive party is PiS which is right wing on social issues but left wing on economy.

[alice55]

What's interesting about this party is that is it liberal in economy compared to Le Pen which is the reverse of it completely.
Is liberal stuff a right wing things? I'm always confused because what we call extreme right in France is so different from others countries. Le Pen is full protectionism which is the reverse of liberal.

In France RN and Zemmour party Reconquete never made an alliance as Le Pen refuse to make an alliance with them, they only very recently made one with half of the regular right (Eric Ciotti) though the regular right party split up and after having made an temporary alliance with Le Pen. Now there's two regular right party ( but the part of which made an alliance with Le Pen is not considered as being extreme right).

Yes, I heard of him I saw the video some time ago.

His party is pretty special, I wonder how doing such a things would be possible xD

Poland party seem to be pretty Catholic (especially when I compare to France where none of them are except traditionally the regular right party Les Republicain, it's for whom most Catholic vote for).

PiS seem to be the closest to Le Pen party I think

[DrPepper12]

Oh so a fire sale to build empty model display cities? China called. It wants it's policy back.

[Cice369]

Unless we're mining for precious metals, no. Rare earths in Greenland for tech, plus whatever we end up getting from Japan. Too many countries have large trade deficits so there will probably be more increases in percentages for tariffs.

[exitseven]

I think everything is on the table. It is time to think outside the box.

[noohair]

What I don't support is our deficit spending to fix the problems of the rest of the world.

[Pterodon]

Sure