Hageman's selective attention
She chairs the committee on executive overreach. So why is she silent on ICE killings?
Rep. Harriet Hageman is being accused of evading questions and dodging her own town hall when the questions went to areas that she was uncomfortable speaking about. Evasion? It’s more than that. It’s a pattern of selective attention that reveals who she actually serves.
She touted $5.6 million in funds for Wyoming projects her votes helped secure, along with Grasslands Grazing Act, sexual predator legislation, and anti-abortion measures. In normal times, these are the achievements that representatives bring home to their people to show their support.
U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman speaks at a town hall event Jan. 27, 2026, in Casper. (Dustin Bleizeffer/WyoFile)
These aren’t normal times.
She touted $5.6 million for Wyoming projects while voting for policies that will cost individual Wyomingites far more. Without the premium tax credit enhancements she opposed, the average Wyoming family of four making $66,000 will see their annual health insurance premiums jump by $3,025. Wyoming faces some of the steepest health insurance increases in the nation. Hageman’s asking for praise on how she gives a dollar with one hand. Meanwhile she’s taking $20 from Wyoming with her other hand.
But the healthcare costs pale beside her failure on constitutional oversight.
A constitutional lawyer serving in Congress should be tracking federal actions that raise Fourth Amendment questions. Especially when they involve alleged warrantless home entries and citizen deaths. When asked about the killings by ICE in Minnesota, she deflected. “I think that I have to look at the investigation,” she said. “if there were violations of someone’s constitutional rights, there is redress.”
This isn’t just troubling—It’s dereliction of duty.
Hageman chairs the Article One Task Force, a committee specifically created to defend constitutional limits on executive power. Her job is to investigate exactly the kind of events happening in Minnesota: federal agents allegedly conducting warrantless home entries and killing American citizens. Yet she offered no constitutional analysis, no oversight concerns, just deflection.
As Chair of an Article One (Legislative) task force, her job is Oversight, which is independent of judicial redress. She is effectively outsourcing her branch's responsibility to the courts.
Why? Follow the money. 81.6% of Hageman's campaign funding comes from out-of-state donors—primarily national MAGA contributors, not Wyoming voters. Her top funding sources are Phoenix and Washington DC, not Casper, Laramie, or Gillette. She answers to a national partisan base that demands loyalty to the Trump administration, not constitutional principles.
Whether it's professional negligence, strategic avoidance, or selective constitutionalism, the result is the same: Hageman has abandoned the core purpose of the committee she chairs. She's choosing small project wins and party loyalty over defending the Constitution, precisely when Wyoming needs a representative willing to do the job.
If this concerns you, here’s what you can do:
Contact Hageman’s office and demand she address the constitutional questions she’s avoiding:
Washington DC: (202) 225-2311
Casper: (307) 261-6595
Cheyenne: (307) 772-2595
Write a letter to the editor of your local paper. Share this with other Wyoming voters who deserve to know how their representative spends her time—and whose interests she’s actually serving.
Attend her next town hall (check her website for schedule) and ask these questions yourself.
Better yet, if you’re in Cheyenne, join me at The Paramount Café Fridays between 12-1pm. We’re organizing to hold our elected officials accountable, and we need more voices at the table.
Sources:
Wyofile article: https://wyofile.com/hageman-cuts-short-casper-town-hall-after-contentious-exchanges-over-ice-killings/
Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/100066647494924/posts/1414661204098783/
Cap City News: https://capcity.news/community/health/2025/07/15/medicaid-cuts-will-shrink-wyomings-economy-by-140m-over-five-years-study-finds/
Center of Budget and Policy Priorities: https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/health-insurance-premium-spikes-imminent-as-tax-credit-enhancements-set-to-expire
OpenSecrets: https://www.opensecrets.org/races/summary?cycle=2024&id=WY01 (Check Industry and Geography tabs too)