Doge is the talk of Wyoming. What do state leaders say about the cuts led by Elon Muschus?

AFTON – US -REP. Harriet Hageman’s remark about the US Agency for International Development triggered one of the roughest applause of the evening.

Even before the Efficiency of the Ministry of the Trump government – also known as Doge – the Federal Government’s foreign department, which is known under his acronym USAID, began the second Congressman for Wyoming, she said.

“In the interest of complete disclosure, I voted a year ago to dissolve and abolish the USA,” said Hageman to a conference room full of residents of Star Valley, who agreed and even agreed.

During the town hall on Thursday, Hageman informed the RAPP audience that it did not question the United States’ mission. But then she listed programs that President Donald Trump repeated, with whom she does not agree, like the 520 million US dollar Prosper Africa Initiative, which contains an educational curriculum on climate change.

The list ran for a long time.

“I do not agree with 20,000 US dollars to help LGBT people in the elections in Honduran,” said Hageman. “I do not agree with 425,000 US dollars to train Indonesian coffee companies in order to be sexually friendly, and so on and so on.”

Further applause broke out.

However, Susan Danford pushed back ten minutes later.

“I agree that all the things you read ridiculously,” said Danford to Hageman, “but you certainly do a few good things.”

The October tray, which had covered 140 miles from her house in Jackson from her house, did not have the chance to complete her thoughts. Applause – just as loud as before – interrupted.

Hageman admitted that “approximately 17%” of help was “good”. These things, she said, have been moved to the US State Department on which the USAID website no longer exists lives.

Danford ended the exchange.

“I just think we have to go deep,” said Danford, “and try to make sense.”

Hageman’s one-hour town hall part of a southern and western Wyoming racetrack The congress member is partly through. The single representative of the US House of the Equality State touched their efforts to issue problems such as Grizzly Bears and Bureau of Land Management Resource Management for its Rock Springs and Buffalo Field Offices. She also asked questions about a lack of financial resources for preventive projects in connection with the running fire and to Afton’s VA Clinic, which a veteran who was wounded in the fight in Iraq as a “terrible mess”.

Doge effects

However, a large part of the discussion was about the perhaps the highest initiative of the second Trump administration: Doge. The efforts to reduce the US government named after an Internet meme had an impact on the residents of Wyoming, in which the federal government has almost half of the country and managed it in the name of all Americans.

Despite numerous inquiries, official federal offers in Wyoming were not provided as part of the Trump management. But the agency’s devastated and current employees according to the agency – from the US forest service to the US fish and wildlife service to the Bureau of Land Management – have reported involuntary termination of the workforce, albeit to different degrees. Cations of the German office are eliminated and the financing pools are frozen for everything, from flage levers to the expression of endangered black foot ferrets from plague to trailbuilding in Wyoming’s National Forests.

The face of the cuts is Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, who was appointed as a special government agent by Trump, the president he appears.

When Hageman entered Afton, a man began to complain about the influence of the “not elected billionaire” before the audience’s applause for the congress member completed him.

In her comments, Hageman has withdrawn the entrepreneur, born in South Africa, a polarizing figure. It is not a musk that runs mastiff, she said. “A woman named Amy Gleason is the acting director,” said Hageman.

Muschus, added them later, did not call the shots. “Ultimately, the congress will be the those who make the decisions about these different programs,” said Hageman.

Hageman proudly spoke of the 105 billion US dollars to federal government spending that Doge shortened from last Thursday. But she also spoke to the support of Wyoming’s federal workers. On site last autumn, when the historic moose fire burned, the congress member was “in awe” of “knowledge” and “expertise” by Bighorn National Forest, Andrew Johnson, and she expanded the praise beyond a person.

“We have some excellent people, some excellent federal employees here in Wyoming,” said Hageman. “I had a great time to visit our BLM people, our Forest Service people who live and work here, and I know that they have the best interest in Wyoming in their hearts. They have the best interest in these resources in their heart.

The challenge, she added, was to shift the decision -making of Washington, DC, to the local level.

“A lot of rumors”

Hageman did not speak publicly with an immeasurable number of federal workers who were released or encouraged to leave their jobs based in Wyoming. When asked by Wyofile, after the town hall has postponed, she did not necessarily agree with the basic premise of a question that affects Doge Downsizing – her voters.

“There are many rumors,” said Hageman to Wyofile. “(That) is the reason why I will push back a little.”

Like the general public, Hageman was kept in the dark in the dark over Wyoming Laboring Nations, which result from Doge.

“I don’t know the answer either,” she said of job cuts in Wyoming.

But the suggestion that cuts were “deep” in places had a break.

“Where?” she asked. “When?”

Wyofile quoted the Pinedale Ranger District of the Bridger-Ton National Forest, in which a combined full-time employee with 12 permanent season and all year round was left their work or released the Trump government in the first two months, as can be seen from a federal official familiar with the numbers. Most of these dozen workers were instructed to walk on a single day, February 14, which was called massacre on Valentine’s Day.

When asked whether she campaigned behind the scenes in the name of federal state managers, Hageman said that she was spoken in talks with agencies to ensure that they can manage their resources “correctly and effectively”. Her office was in contact with both the U.S. Ministry of the Interior and the Trump administration on this matter, she said.

“We have to have people available to manage resources,” said Hageman. “We also worked with the (congress) committees to ensure that what will happen with bills will be effective on site.”

Other Wyo. Leader takes

Senator John Barrasso, whose office did not answer an interview request for this story, publicly praised Musk’s downsizing. On the day on which the initiative of the Trump government claimed the tasks of an inexhausted number of residents in Wyoming, he told the Cowboy State Daily that Doge “emptied the swamp”.

“The congress will work with DOGE to keep important programs into operation,” said Barrasso, “while he appeals to ruthless and wasteful expenses in Washington.”

The remaining member of Wyoming’s congress delegation, Senator Cynthia Lummis, indicated that he has a nuanced reception against Doge and his still Murky. The senator was in Wyoming Capitol on February 14 and spoke glowing about the change of administration, which initiated a “new golden age”, she said.

“When you look at network television, do not see and hear what Elon Musk is actually doing to waste waste, fraud and abuse,” Lummis told the state’s legislators.

According to an explanation from her office, Lummis has also worked on facilitating the effects of Doge’s cuts on Wyoming. The Senator “made sure that the administration understands how important it is that our national parks and federal areas are properly occupied.”

Lummis is “sympathetic”, the statement on “Wyoming communities that are affected by proposed cuts”.

During a press conference on Wednesday, governor Mark Gordon, on the whole, spoke the breakdown of the federal government by the Trump government.

“I think this administration really wants to return to have the states guided,” Gordon told reporters. “This is a very positive piece of it.”

But the governor also said that he realizes that Doge shortlements will be “traumatic” and “a need” for some people and that in some communities “there are some disturbances that will happen”. He had an impact on the federal fire brigade corps and said that he was “very concerned”.

Wyoming’s congress delegation, said the governor, had agreed to some federal authorities such as the National Park Service. The effects on others, such as the Bureau of Land Management, are less clear.

“The point I made to the (Trump) administration is that the Biden administration would not give us permits to drill oil and gas,” said Gordon. “Now we are worried when we have people to be able to fill out these permits. The net result, we hope, is not zero. We hope that this result will be more positive: to drill in Wyoming.”