An ex-Trump cabinet member has blasted a MAGA push to open public land to private development in a new 60 Minutes segment.

Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke, who led the Interior Department under President Donald Trump’s first term, joined a successful bipartisan effort this summer to kill a provision in the GOP’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” that would have required the government to sell off more than 1 million acres of public land.

The provision, drafted by MAGA Sen. Mike Lee, had been framed as a way to tackle the housing crunch while reducing the national debt. It also aligned with the Trump administration’s wider push to make more public land available for development.

Zinke, 64, slammed the idea of using land sales to pay down the national debt, which has ballooned to a record $38 trillion, in a

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