The problem isn’t just that the Utah senator amplified obvious misinformation. The bigger problem is that Mike Lee keeps amplifying misinformation.

Utah’s political leadership is regrouping after three failed attempts to wrest public lands from the federal government this year.

Senator Mike Lee introduced a bill to ban secret meetings by the D.C. Council, aiming to increase transparency and challenge local governance practices.

Last month, Lee introduced a now-removed amendment to Trump’s policy megabill that mandated the sale of up to 3 million acres. It did little to address the challenges of building affordable housing on public land.

Gov. Spencer Cox denounced X posts made by Utah’s GOP U.S. Sen. Mike Lee last month that seemed to mock the assassination of a Minnesota lawmaker and her spouse and the shooting of another.

"He’s not wrong about the concept, he was just not wise in the approach he used,” Republican Thom Tillis said of the Senate Energy chair.