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Wyoming
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 11 stories to Wyoming since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Wyoming.
25days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Wyoming
10 storiesTrump invokes the 1950 Defense Production Act to steer nearly $700 million toward reviving coal plants, as the fuel sits in two-decade decline.
Coal now 8% of US energy
Wyoming Supreme Court unanimously upholds a ban on switching parties within 96 days of a primary, aimed at Democrats and independents voting in GOP primaries.
Backers' crossover claims statistically unfounded
MLB rules out a game at Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park, which The Washington Post reported Trump officials weighed, after local leaders objected.
New Mexico senator also objected
National Park Service's deputy director scouts three Grand Teton sites for a Major League Baseball ballpark, WaPo reports, as White House says it's no priority.
County officials never consulted
Wyoming's Republican governor asks the state attorney general to investigate "aggressive" Justice Department election monitors who tried to inspect tabulators and interview voters during the primary.
DOJ plans 1,000 monitors in November
Wyoming Governor Gordon sues the tax board he appointed to force certification of home values it withheld over a 2024 cap creating unequal assessments.
He quashed their own challenge first
Interior Associate Deputy Secretary Karen Budd-Falen admits on video to shaping grazing rules that benefit ranches her family runs on 250,000 acres of federal land.
Watchdog calls for ethics probe
Trump approves Bridger Pipeline Expansion to carry 550,000 barrels of Canadian oil daily through Montana and Wyoming, dubbed "Keystone Light" after Biden killed original.
Bridger had 600,000 gallon spill in ND
Sen. Cynthia Lummis, who raised concerns about Trump's private meetings with $TRUMP meme coin investors, announces she won't seek re-election after one term.
"I do not have six more years in me"
Trump administration moves to dismantle 65-year-old Colorado climate research center that developed hurricane forecasting tools, calling it "climate alarmism."
830 employees, $123M annual budget
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
ProPublica review finds immigration agents detained 506 US citizens since January 2025, including at least 70 children, as DHS denies arresting citizens by mistake.
About a dozen citizens deported
Documents show Homeland Security bought five planes for $304 million from then-Secretary Noem's donor on her last morning, including a $108 million luxury 737.
Gulfstreams marked up $11 million apiece
Fighting back
3 storiesWyoming judge blocks state's six-week abortion ban, citing voter-approved 2012 constitutional amendment that protects healthcare decisions.
Wyoming Supreme Court struck similar ban January
CNN, Politico and MS NOW sue Trump over their White House ban, as NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox refuse to film Trump in CNN's place.
Judge who restored Acosta's pass presiding
Supreme Court refuses to let Postal Service enforce Trump's mail-ballot rule before November over two dissents, three weeks after clearing the executive order behind it.
Kavanaugh cites insufficient time to implement
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