It’s everyone’s job to hold Wyoming lawmakers accountable.
It’s the 2026 Legislative budget session: Do you know what your local lawmakers are up to?
If you’re like most Wyomingites, the answer is “probably not.”
How, then, do you know whether they’re doing a good job representing you and your community?
Better Wyoming’s Grassroots Accountability Reports aim to answer these questions and make sure YOU know how your local lawmakers voted while they were representing YOU at the capitol.
During the 2026 Legislative budget session, we’ll track how your local legislators vote on critical issues that affect our lives—like healthcare, education, tax reform, and more. We will work alongside our grassroots supporters to educate our neighbors across the state about these votes.
Better Wyoming will publish two Grassroots Accountability Reports for the Legislature’s 2026 budget session—one in the middle of the session and one afterwards—for each Wyoming county. They are designed to help you and your neighbors understand how your local legislators’ decisions impact your community and your life.
Together, we’ll ensure that every voter in Wyoming knows where their lawmakers stand on the critical issues that shape our state.
SESSION SUMMARY
During the Wyoming Legislature’s 2026 budget session, lawmakers approved a two-year state budget that omits nearly all of the cuts proposed by the Freedom Caucus. It includes full funding for the University of Wyoming, funding for the Wyoming Business Council, cost-of-living pay increases for state employees, increased funding for maternal healthcare, funding for wildfire recovery, and funding for other critical community services.
Public schools took center stage with the process of “recalibrating” how the state funds K-12 education. Ultimately, the Legislature passed a “recalibration” bill that addresses many of the concerns recently raised by the state Supreme Court, although it restricts how some money can be spent in a way that decreases local school district control.
The legislature rejected proposals to ban books, make voting more difficult, decrease local government funding revenue from property taxes, and most other Freedom Caucus priorities.
A Freedom Caucus donor who was caught handing out checks to lawmakers on the floor of the capitol—and the investigation and uproar that followed—maintained a place in media headlines through the month-long session.
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Better Wyoming will also publish a report covering the 2025 and 2026 sessions. You can find our 2025 Grassroots Accountability Reports here.
Want to help? Here’s how.
Share out the Grassroots Accountability reports! Most people in Wyoming have no idea what their local legislators are up to or why it matters to their life. We need to change that.
Our community organizers are here to support you! We will provide training, any tools you may need, and opportunities to take action.
Will you help us get these reports out to the folks these decisions impact the most?