Washington, D.C. — This week, Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) took to the Senate floor to highlight the completion of President Trump’s first 100 “transformational” days back in office. In the remarks, Senator Lummis discusses how President Trump has revitalized American energy independence, cut wasteful government spending, supported innovative digital asset policies, protected female sports, and restored America’s rightful leadership position around the world.
Watch and listen to Senator Lummis’ remarks here.
A transcript of Senator Lummis’ remarks is below:
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“Mr. President – Today, President Trump completes his first 100 days of his return to the White House. And it’s been nothing short of transformational.
“Under President Trump and Vice President Vance’s leadership, we are witnessing the rapid implementation of campaign promises that are already reshaping America’s policy landscape.
“When I go home to Wyoming each weekend, people approach me everywhere – from restaurants to the feed store – eager to discuss the positive changes happening in Washington. The overwhelming sentiment is enthusiasm for what President Trump is accomplishing for everyday Americans.
“For example, on day one, President Trump, restored the dignity of men and women as biologically distinct sexes. It is hard to believe he had to do that, but indeed he did. One of the administration’s first major actions was signing an executive order directing federal agencies to recognize biological sex in athletic competition. The left spent the past four years gaslighting Americans and making the failed argument that biological males should now be competing in women’s sports in the name of “fairness.” Within a few weeks of taking office, President Trump tackled this issue and made it clear that this administration won’t support the left’s attacks on female athletes.
“I believe this is the women’s rights issue of our time, and I’m grateful for President Trump’s leadership. For some people my age we spent so many years trying to exercise our rights under Title IX and other rights to recognize women’s rights only to have them swept under the rug and disregarded by the left, requiring that women not only compete against men but have them in their locker rooms in what were uncomfortable and sometimes unsafe circumstances. President Trump recognized this and thankfully he has put that issue to rest for a while.
“President Trump is also delivering on his promise to unleash American energy dominance. A few weeks ago, I joined President Trump and some of my colleagues at the White House for his signing of an executive order that starts to reverse the Biden and Obama administrations’ anti-coal agenda. For energy states like Wyoming, the official lifting of the unconstitutional coal moratorium represents a significant economic opportunity for western states.
“By removing unnecessary restrictions on energy extraction, the administration has signaled its commitment to blue-collar jobs, cheaper energy for American families, and a new era of energy dominance. Joe Biden and his administration did not care about the impact of their regulations on working-class people; the Trump administration does care, and they are continuing to take actions that will help Americans and our amazing energy communities. Wyoming exports 12 times more energy than it consumes and much of that is in the form of hydrocarbons. Each and every year for years after the Clean Air Act passed, we were producing more energy and producing cleaner air. These things can happen simultaneously and it’s because of yankee ingenuity, it’s because we know how to do things better, all the time. We don’t have to accept the status quo when it comes to energy dominance. They were certain things in the Biden Administration that forced something called “environmental justice” an absolutely trumped up, dreamed up, idea that we can’t have clean energy and abundant energy at the same time. That’s a totally wrong-headed approach to what has always been a great American tradition of ingenuity and entrepreneurs who can take a problem and solve it. There is such a thing as clean air that can be produced from coal and natural gas, in particular. I am proud that my state is part of that, I am proud that President Trump recognizes it and that he has taken steps to restore our statutory ability to produce both clean air and abundant hydrocarbon energy simultaneously.
“Perhaps the most dramatic turnaround has been at the southern border. Where the Biden administration created chaos, President Trump, has restored order. Through multiple executive actions – signing the Laken Riley Act, ending “catch-and-release,” reimplementing “remain in Mexico,” and more—we’ve seen border encounters plummet from nearly 380,000 in February and March last year to just 22,000 plus a few during the same period this year.
“The people of Wyoming are grateful to have a president who cares about securing our border and deporting those who are not here legally. Especially those from gangs that are causing unsafe communities, horrible crimes perpetuated on the American people, all unnecessarily if we’d only followed the laws that were in existence and the statutes that were in existence all along. Those laws that President Biden ignored and that President Trump is following and implementing.
“For decades, America’s leaders have failed our country when it comes to fiscal responsibility. We in this very chamber are partly responsible for that.
“Our $36 trillion national debt represents a real and present threat to America’s future. We all know it’s unsustainable and yet after COVID, we never went back to pre-covid spending levels. We have kept spending at post-covid highs, even though the money spent during the COVID years is no longer necessary in our now more growing and robust post-covid economy. Most taxpayers don’t realize their hard-earned dollars primarily service this massive debt through interest payments rather than funding national defense and essential services. That’s why I strongly support President Trump’s creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). It was done through a provision in Obamacare and it’s subsequent ability to gain efficiencies through efforts that computers can assist us with. Nobody knows better how to do it than people who have voluntarily participated through their expertise and ability to identify waste, fraud, and abuse using the Department of Government Efficiency and their remarkable skills with computers to ferret out waste, fraud, and abuse.
“Elon Musk and the DOGE team have already identified a huge number of wasteful and abusive expenditures that don’t benefit American families. All of us should be proud, in both parties, that the rhetoric that we used over the years that we are going to pay for things by ferreting out waste, fraud, and abuse and then after elected don’t even try to find waste, fraud, and abuse has finally come to an end. Elon Musk and his team have found true waste, fraud, and abuse in government and is identifying it so cabinet secretaries can deal with it in their respective agencies. That is exactly the kind of fiscal discipline that we value in Wyoming, that we all should value as Americans.
“After years of the Biden administration’s unbridled hostility toward digital assets and cryptocurrency, President Trump is fulfilling his promise to lead the most pro-digital asset administration in history. And I could not be more proud. We know that we are moving into a digital future, a digital economy. It is something that we should embrace, it’s something that we can include into a new modern 21st century economy. It is not something to fear. But it is something that cries for consumer protections and our incredible ability that we have as agencies to disclose matters that should be disclosed to investors and to allow innovation where it makes our ability to do business internationally faster, cheaper, and more responsible through the ledgers of blockchain incredible abilities to send money all over the world fast and inexpensively. This helps regular everyday Americans avoid the tremendous friction that’s in the banking system that costs taxpayers money and it costs taxpayers time and allows us to do business all over the world in a much less expensive and robust way, what a blessing to have an administration that sees the future in this way, that understands the innovation that is at our fingertips that we can use to go forward in a true 21st century digital economy. I am particularly pleased with President Trump’s support for my Strategic Bitcoin Reserve initiative, which will address our national debt while securing America’s position as the global leader in financial innovation. As Bitcoin comes into more usage, it’s use makes the whole system more secure, more robust, and more capable of serving our needs all over the world. We should be the global leader of this fantastic new ledger-based asset that is in a digital format that is going to be transformative of everyday economy and puts the everyday American, in fact, the everyday worker all over the world in control of their own money. What a wonderful blessing for hardworking people all over the world to have this great new technology and to have America lead the way in implementing this wonderful, wonderful innovation.
“Here in the Senate, we have confirmed 54 of President Trump’s cabinet and sub-cabinet nominees. It has required some long hours, many in the middle of the night must to our consternation, but our work is far from complete.
“The Democrats’ agenda threatens to impose crushing tax increases on hardworking Wyoming families and our local small businesses. If the tax cuts that were implemented under President Trump’s first administration allow to expire, it will create the largest tax increase in history at a time when businesses need the innovation that allows our economy to grow. That can come from a robust and fair tax system. This is something that I look forward to assisting my colleagues in this body to implement in a permanent form and using our current standard practices.
“Following years of punishing inflation under the Biden administration, our communities and working families cannot shoulder any additional financial strain. Keeping our tax code as is and making it permanent is yet another way of implementing advantages to local working economies. It also just delights me that President Trump identified just real working Americans who are struggling to make ends meet, who are living paycheck to paycheck, and tried to identify ways to tax advantage their lives. For example, no tax on tips, no tax on social security, no tax on overtime hours, these are things for regular, everyday working people. Some people alleged that President Trump is trying to help his billionaire buddies, I’m not seeing that at all. I’m seeing a President that really gets the everyday working American and wants to make sure that as they live paycheck to paycheck and try to plan for their families that there is some relief in store with regard to his proposals for taxes.
“These first 100 days of President Trump’s return to office represent just the opening chapter of America’s Golden Era. Already, his administration has made remarkable progress – securing our southern border, revitalizing American energy independence, cutting wasteful government spending, supporting innovative digital asset policies, and restoring America’s rightful leadership position globally. We know even today that as countries are renegotiating their trade policies and tariff policies with us that there is a newfound desire to find a level playing field, reciprocal trade agreements that allow for some of our products to go into their economies in ways that acknowledge that the United States has been globally at a trade disadvantage, and to try and repair some of those long practices where the United States was participating in free trade and other countries were not. It’s time to make it all fair trade. And I applaud President Trump’s desires to do that and hopefully soon, so that we can get some of the turmoil associated with these important changes to our economy behind us and restore stability in our economy in our everyday lives.
“I anticipate the next 100 days will bring equally significant achievements, and I feel deeply privileged to work alongside this administration, and this president. I served fourteen years in the Wyoming legislature all with Democrat governors. I have served twelve years in Congress all with Democrat presidents. This is the first time in my entire life that I have legislatively served with a president of my own party. It’s refreshing. It’s delightful. And it’s even on occasion, fun. I feel so privileged to be here with a Republican president who is delivering meaningful results to the people of Wyoming and our great nation.
“Mr. Chairman – I yield back the floor. Thank you!”