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Jul 2024
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How to Buy US Government Land

Victor Menasce
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On today's show we are talking about how the US Federal Government manages and disposes of about 1/4 of the entire land mass of the United States. There is a handy report published by the Congressional Research Service which summarizes all of this. The report can be found at

https://crsreports.congress.gov

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