President Biden and progressive Democrats are infamous for big government policies that pander to their far-left base and inflate unelected D.C. bureaucrats’ power. For more than three years, the President and Democrats in Congress have embraced a top-down overhaul of federal agencies to maximize their power, ensuring liberal ideologies touch every aspect of the federal government.

The Biden administration has grown quite fond of woke and divisive politics, and has installed so-called “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) programs into the federal government which squander taxpayer dollars.

While liberal elites love to pat themselves on the back for supposedly being “inclusive,” people in Wyoming are not falling for their insincere virtue signals; they know these DEI programs are not about promoting fairness but about sewing division and worsening racial biases. Let me be clear: there is no place for this discourse in the federal government, and the people of Wyoming should not be forced to watch their hard-earned money wasted on these harmful policies, especially while inflation rates under this administration soar and prices continue to rise across the board.

I recently partnered with Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) to introduce the Dismantle DEI Act to eliminate DEI programs within the federal government and rescind these out-of-touch executive orders. Our bill outlaws mandatory employee DEI pledges, ends these trainings and prevents educational accreditation agencies from leveraging their position to push DEI policies on our education institutions.

The people of Wyoming should not be funding the Biden administration’s woke and wasteful agenda, and I am fighting every day in Washington to end this madness.

Happy Trails,

This week, I joined Semafor in a fireside chat about the future of the financial services industry and how the U.S. can drive financial innovation by creating commonsense guardrails centered around consumer protections for digital assets.

I was proud to receive the Defender of Limited Government award from the Institute of Legislative Analysis for my votes defending the freedoms people in Wyoming hold dear.

I enjoyed celebrating our nation’s independence last week throughout Wyoming! The Cody Stampede Parade and rodeo roundup is always a hit year after year.

I also enjoyed meeting folks in Lincoln County during parades in Thayne and Afton.

Last week, I was excited to celebrate the opening of the Meta Data Center in Cheyenne that will help Wyoming be on the ground floor of cutting-edge technology and boost our economy.

Thanks to the Chevron doctrine, unelected bureaucrats in D.C. have been enjoying far too much power, freely empowered to interpret laws however they see fit. Most recently, the Chevron doctrine allowed the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to create new federal crimes to punish law-abiding and responsible gun owners without Congressional approval.

In response to this egregious overreach, I led my colleagues in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court Garland v. Cargill case calling the Biden administration out for this glaring overstep, and I am proud to say the Supreme Court ruled in our favor.

The Constitution is clear: decision-making powers lie with the democratically-elected members of Congress, not Biden’s bureaucrats. This administration has enjoyed unlimited power to pander to its radical base and drown the people of Wyoming in a sea of regulations. Now that the Supreme Court has taken this administration’s finger off the scale, I have partnered with my colleagues to establish a working group to restore legislative powers to the people and finally put these runaway agencies back in their place.

The Department of Transportation has released the 2024 Notice of Funding Opportunity for the Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program Fiscal Years (FY) 2024-2026. This program helps reconnect communities previously cut off from economic opportunities by transportation infrastructure. The Infrastructure, Investment and Jobs Act authorized $1 billion in grant funding from FY 2022-26 for planning, construction and technical assistance.

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Recently, athletes across the country punched their tickets to Paris in the upcoming Summer Olympic Games, and the University of Wyoming’s own Jack O’Neil was among those chosen to represent our nation in the upcoming Paralympics.

Jack topped the field in the 100-meter backstroke with an impressive 1:11:60 and he took third place in the 100-meter freestyle clocking in at 1:05.04. Good luck in Paris, Jack! The Cowboy State is rooting for you.

Photo Courtesy of the University of Wyoming