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,

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. 

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.

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 to watch the full conversation.

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 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.

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. 

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.

Photo courtesy of the Powell Tribune.