CASPER, Wyo. — Wyoming’s U.S. Congressional Representative Harriet Hageman left a town hall event at Casper College about five minutes early on Tuesday after a breakdown in decorum and jeers over her response to questions regarding recent deadly events in Minnesota and alleged Fourth Amendment violations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents under President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security.
A quarter or fewer of the seats at the Wheeler Concert Hall were filled as Hageman recapped her work on the judiciary and natural resources committees, wins for Wyoming infrastructure in Congressional appropriations and support for the annual March for Life events in Washington D.C. and Cheyenne.
During the Q&A one woman asked: “Why have you not spoken out against the Fourth Amendment violations that ICE officers and Border Patrol officers are currently engaging in by breaking into people’s homes without a warrant?”
“I don’t know that I trust your facts,” Hageman said, which prompted a round of jeers.
AP News and other outlets reported last week on a leaked DHS memo from May 2025 apparently showing that ICE agents were briefed that they can enter homes solely with an internal administrative warrant, not one signed by an impartial judge. The distinction is characterized in the whistleblower’s affidavit as “a complete break from the law [that] undercuts the Fourth Amendment and the rights it protects.”
Wyoming Rep. Harriet Hageman (R) addresses questions at Casper College on 1/27/26 (Gregory Hirst, Oil City News)
“I think that I’d have to look at the investigation,” Hageman said. “If there’s violations of someone’s Constitutional rights, there is redress.”
“As a Constitutional lawyer, you should be infuriated,” the woman said. “You should be incensed. They are not doing any investigation!”
Hageman left the stage.
The audience had sat quietly for most of the first 40 minutes, with Hagemen reporting on what Wyoming could expect from appropriations bills passed by the House ahead of the Jan 30 deadline.
“This year I was able to secure $25.8 million in funding for Wyoming projects. That includes $3 million for the Natrona County Airport and $1 million for Northern Arapahoe Water Treatment facility, which is in desperate need of repair,” Hageman said. The bills also include over $800,000 for Casper’s police vehicles and $1.75 million for Casper’s North Platte Sanitary Sewer Project.
Wyoming Rep. Harriet Hageman (R) addresses questions at Casper College on 1/27/26 (Gregory Hirst, Oil City News)
“By finishing these bills we have effectively returned to a Republican budget rather than extending the inflated COVID- and Biden-era levels of spending,” Hageman said.
Hageman touted the rollback of Biden-era moratoriums on coal development in the Powder River Basin, the preservation of Renewable Fuel Standard exemptions for small Wyoming refineries and the expansion of laws to protect children from predatory and exploitative online behaviors.
Hageman said she worked on legislation strengthening requirements for commercial drivers licenses, including increased English-language proficiency standards for drivers and cracking down on “CDL mills.”
Kevin Hawley, President of the Wyoming Trucker’s Association and one of the half dozen who got to speak, thanked Hageman “on behalf of 7,000 registered trucking companies in Wyoming.
“There’s been a lot of bad policy over the last 15 years that came out that threatened their livelihoods,” Hawley said.
Ryan Perry asked Hageman about breaking up monopolies in the energy, media, pharmaceutical and health care industries, and asked about the long-running Republican effort to “repeal and replace” the 2010 Affordable Care Act.
Hageman responded with a recap of late Senator John McCain’s notorious ‘thumbs-down’ vote that killed an Obamacare repeal effort 2017. Hageman endorsed a return to that project while touting partial work requirements for able-bodied, childless adults in states that had expanded Medicaid as part of last summer’s “Big Beautiful Bill.”
Murmurs of derision bubbled up over Hageman’s comments about climate change and her characterization of nighttime as “a catastrophic failure” for solar farms.
“Over the last 10 to 15 years, the obsession over climate change and global warming has forced [utility companies] into invest in unreliable and unaffordable energy, and that’s why our energy costs have skyrocketed,” Hageman said.
“That’s simply false,” a woman called from the audience.
“The amount of disrespect from the liberal loons in this room… ” Perry said while he was at the mic. “Grow up.“
A man identifying himself as a CC student asked Hageman why she hadn’t yet acknowledged Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti: two Minnesotans shot dead by ICE agents this month amidst concentrated deportation operations and widespread demonstrations in the city. The formal investigations are being undertaken solely by federal agencies under the Trump administration.
The exchange came 45 minutes into the event scheduled for an hour.
‘It hasn’t been what we were talking about,” Hageman said. “Here’s what I’ll say — stop interrupting me. So, I think what is happening in Minnesota is a terrible tragedy for the man and the woman that were killed…”
“What were their names?” someone called.
“Renee Good and Alex Pretti.”
Former Democratic Wyoming House candidate Jane Ifland asked Hageman “how the hell you could justify” women in states with far-reaching abortion bans who were denied emergency care due to physicians’ fears of violating the law.
“Yes, I do understand what an ectopic pregnancy is, and we have medical care that is provided to women in addressing that.”
Oil City News has reached out to Hageman’s office for further discussion.
