Cynthia Lummis - Senator for Wyoming
*President Biden's Border
Charade*
On his first day in office, President Joe Biden executed
94 executive actions to open the flood gates at the southwest border
and the results speak for themselves. Ten million illegal aliens have
poured across the border and enough fentanyl has entered our country
to kill every American several times over.
In the time you read
this newsletter, one American will have died from a fatal drug
overdose.
For months, President Biden has played politics and
tried to shift the blame, saying he could not fix the border crisis
and Congress should act.
While the crisis itself failed to compel
President Biden to take action, horrific poll numbers and frightened
political consultants in Washington did.
This week, President
Biden announced a half-hearted executive action that he claims will
slow the tsunami of illegal immigrants and drugs illegally entering
this country.
Unfortunately, this executive order looks more like
an election year stunt than a sincere, long-term solution to address
our border crisis.
Do not be fooled.
If President Biden wins, it
will be back to open borders madness.
We need real solutions not
election year gimmicks.
We need to end catch-and-release, finish
President Trump's wall and take back the southwest border from
murderous drug cartels.
That is what real border security looks
like.
Happy Trails,
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Senator
Lummis' Week in Pictures
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The
rain may have forced us inside, but it did not stop me from meeting
with some wonderful students from Upton High School. These kids were
thrilled to be in our nation's capital and were eager for the next
phase of their trip in New York City.
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I
met with a great group of students from Cokeville High School. We
talked about their trip to Washington, rodeo and even discussed recent
regulations from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms.
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I
joined Politico for an energy summit to discuss the Biden
administration's unfair targeting of energy producing states,
particularly Wyoming and Alaska. This administration is picking
winners and losers, and it picks them by whether you are a red or blue
state. It is wrong and needs to stop. Click here [link 1] to watch the
full conversation.
Legislative Actions
Between climate
alarmism, wokeism and draconian COVID lockdowns, we have seen coastal
elites try and weaponize information and technology to destroy the
Wyoming way of life. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a transformative
technology with incredibly positive potential for our country, but I
am gravely concerned Google's Gemini AI is being cultivated to tilt
the political scales and rewrite history.
Since Gemini was rolled
out in February of this year, we have seen several alarming examples
of the AI model creating outputs that intentionally disregard publicly
available information and historical facts to align with woke
ideology.
Perhaps most concerning are reports of local news outlets
being paid to publish multiple articles per day using Gemini's woke
algorithm.
Senators JD Vance (R-OH) and Mike Lee (R-UT) joined me
in sending a letter [link 2] to Google LLC Chief Executive Officer
Sundar Pichai detailing several concerning examples and asking a
series of questions requesting transparency from Google over how
Gemini was developed, how it is currently being utilized and what is
being done to prevent political bias from tainting this emerging
technology.
It is imperative that Gemini, and other powerful
systems like it, are developed as tools for human advancement and not
for ideological influence and control.
Working for
Wyoming
Wyoming and California could not be more different. In
California, it might take you an hour to drive five miles and in
Wyoming you might drive an hour without seeing five people.
Forcing California and Wyoming to operate under the same density
requirements makes absolutely zero sense, but that is what the Biden
administration is doing with its final rule affecting rural nursing
homes and long-term care facilities. The rule imposes burdensome
federal staffing mandates on nursing homes. The most harmful is
requiring facilities to have a registered nurse present 24/7, which is
a drastic increase compared to the current requirement of eight hours
a day.
The Biden administration's attempt to force long-term care
facility staffing requirements, designed for big cities, on rural
states threatens to shutter all nursing homes in Wyoming.
We need
to be making it easier for seniors to get quality care not harder. I
joined U.S. Senator James Lankford (R-OK) in introducing a
*Congressional Review Act* [link 3] resolution to overturn this
misguided and backward regulation.
Grant Information
The U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development office has opened
up grant funding for its Single Family Housing Repair Loans & Grants
in Wyoming program. It provides loans to low-income homeowners to
repair, improve or modernize their homes or grants to elderly
low-income homeowners to remove health and safety
hazards.
Applications for this grant are accepted year-round. To
find out if you are eligible and to learn more, click here [link 4].
Wyoming Shoutout
Former Air Force Senior Airman Tom Bibbey has been
playing the trumpet for more than 70 years and for the past 25 years
he has been leading the playing of Taps in Powell.
On Memorial Day,
he played a perfect rendition of the song after a 21-gun salute over
Crown Hill Cemetery where about 600 veterans from as long ago as the
Spanish-American War have been laid to rest.
His long-standing
commitment to honoring our heroes is incredibly admirable.
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Office
Locations:
Cody
1285 Sheridan Avenue
Suite 215
Cody, WY
82414
Phone: 307-527-9444
Sundance
120 North 4th Street
(769)
P.O. Box 769
Sundance, WY 82729
Phone:
307-283-3461
Cheyenne
Federal Center
2120 Capitol Avenue, Suite
2007
Cheyenne, WY 82001
Phone: 307-772-2477
Star Valley
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Street, Suite 105
P.O. Box 1630
Afton, WY 83110
Phone:
307-248-1736
Casper
Dick Cheney Federal Bldg.
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Suite 3201
PO Box 33201
Casper, WY 82601
Phone:
307-261-6572
Washington, DC
Russell Senate
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SR 127A
Washington, DC 20510
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