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Congress Must Act to
Prevent Reckless Government Spending






This week, Congress once again
finds itself with an 11th hour attempt to avoid a government
shutdown. Tuesday, senators were handed an 80-page Continuing
Resolution (CR) with billions of dollars in funding to avoid a
government shutdown and given just 45 minutes to read the
legislation before being forced to vote.

Instead of allowing senators the
time needed to carefully analyze and consider the bill, Majority
Leader Chuck Schumer took Nancy Pelosi's "we have to pass the
bill so that you can find out what is in it" route and decided to
spend money now and figure out how to pay for it later.

I am deeply disappointed that we
are barreling toward a shutdown and I will be doing everything in
my power to reopen the government as quickly as possible if a
shutdown occurs. As negotiations continue, I think this also
gives us the opportunity to carefully examine our unsustainable
spending trajectory that is still above pre-COVID levels, and it
would be irresponsible to maintain this reckless status quo.

I simply cannot and will not be
so cavalier when it comes to tacking on billions more to our
record-high national debt. For years, Congress has decided to
operate under a different set of budgetary standards than the
rest of the country, and that has to change. People in Wyoming
balance their checkbooks, it is past time the federal government
does the same.

Last week, our national debt
soared past $33 trillion, nearly double what it was ten years
ago. $33 trillion comes out to roughly $250,000 of debt per
household or nearly $100,000 per American. Thanks to the Biden
administration's spending, those numbers will just keep climbing.
Even if every household contributed $1,000 each month toward
paying off our national debt, it would still take 21 years to pay
off. If that was not concerning enough, President Biden's
reckless spending has doubled the deficit to two trillion dollars
this year.

This unsustainable debt
trajectory should serve as a glaring red warning sign about our
nation's financial future. If we fail to reverse course, future
generations in Wyoming will be stuck under a mountain of debt so
large that they may never be able to crawl out.

I worry that this horrifying
possibility may become a reality for my three grandkids if
Congress does not change its ways.

This concern is exactly why I
introduced the Sustainable Budget Act which would form a
bipartisan commission to reduce the deficit and balance the
budget within 10 years.

Families and businesses in
Wyoming have to live within their means and it is long past time
Congress lived by the same rules.



Happy Trails,









Senator Lummis' Week in Pictures






I sat down with Kilty Brown, the
Executive Director of Central Wyoming Hospice, to discuss
expanding telehealth access in Wyoming and the importance of
quality end of life care.










The Wyoming Bankers Association
came to Washington this week and I was able to meet with them to
discuss expanding access to financial services in Wyoming and
eliminating red tape that increases the cost of operating.











I met with the Wyoming School
Boards Association to discuss expanding rural broadband access to
ensure that students throughout our state have access to the
internet to do their homework and study.









SkillsUSA is a terrific
organization that works to keep technical education programs in
Wyoming high schools. In my meeting with them we talked about the
shortage of skilled labor in Wyoming and how important their work
is to giving future generations career skills that will help
serve our entire state.



























WORKING
IN WASHINGTON



Legislative Actions:


I joined Senator
Bill Cassidy (R-LA) in introducing the Warding Off Hostile
Administrative Lease Efforts (WHALE) Act to prevent the U.S.
Departments of Commerce and the Interior from issuing maritime
rules related to the Rice's Whale that would shut down offshore
energy development and impede military activities.

The Biden
administration's punitive efforts to restrict oil and gas
transportation in the Gulf of Mexico hurts domestic energy
production and threatens the livelihoods of our nation's energy
workers.



Committee Hearings:
I spoke at a Senate
Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing about how we
need to pass the SAFER Banking Act which would protect firearm
and energy companies' access to banking. The woke ESG movement is
the greatest threat to Wyoming's way of life and I am committed
to protecting the Cowboy State here in Washington. Click here to
watch.











WORKING
IN WYOMING



Working for Wyoming:
Earlier this month,
the governor of New Mexico instituted a public health emergency
to suspend the 2nd Amendment-protected carrying of firearms. This
unprecedented infringement on the right to bear arms was followed
up by President Biden announcing an Office of Gun Violence
Prevention that is set to be led by multiple radical left-wing
activists who have previously worked for pro-gun control groups
including the Community Justice Action Fund, an organization
dedicated to declaring a national gun violence public health
emergency as one of its three policy planks.

I will not sit idly
by and let President Biden manufacture a crisis as an excuse to
confiscate guns from law abiding Wyoming citizens. I joined with
Senator Mike Braun (R-IN) in introducing the Protecting the Right
to Keep and Bear Arms Act which would prevent the Biden
administration from declaring a public health emergency to impose
gun control. The bill would serve as a firewall to protect the
Second Amendment rights of people in Wyoming from the anti-gun
activists in the Biden administration. In Wyoming, we know that
gun ownership boosts safety and any attempt to limit it is a win
for criminals.












GRANT OPPORTUNITIES FOR WYOMING






Last week, the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of $7.5
billion in Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act
(WIFIA) funding. This 7th round of WIFIA financing consists of
$6.5 billion through the WIFIA program and $1 billion through the
state WIFIA (SWIFIA) program, which provides loans exclusively
for state infrastructure financing authority borrowers.

This low-interest loan program
will help Wyoming communities invest in drinking water,
wastewater and stormwater infrastructure. To learn more about the
available funding and how to apply, click here.










WYOMING SHOUT OUT






Keelan Anderson, a kicker for
Cheyenne South High School, has been rewriting the Wyoming state
record books all season. Earlier this year, he hit a 57-yard
field goal to tie the state record for longest field goal that
had stood since 1982. That record did not last long. Soon after
in a game against Natrona County, Anderson drilled a 61-yard
field goal to break the 41-year record.
61-yard field goals are rare to
see in NFL games, let alone a high school football game. Keelan
Anderson is clearly very talented, and I am excited to see him
breaking records this season!






Photo courtesy of
Wyoming Tribune Eagle













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