She Lived American Dream, Sees That Same Spirit of Opportunity Again in Trump Admin

What a difference two months or so can make. Just since President Donald Trump took office on Jan. 20, Rep. Harriet Hageman says she has seen “a lot of hope” among Americans. 

“We are in the middle of a renaissance, and when I'm home, I feel that,” Hageman, R-Wyo., said. 

America is a “land of opportunity,” she added, explaining she sees a spirit of freedom and optimism coming out of the Trump administration. By contrast, the Wyoming congresswoman says that what "comes out of the Biden administration and Democrat authority is control and dictatorship and telling us that everything is bad.” 

Hageman, 62, has experienced the rich opportunities America offers firsthand. When Hageman’s parents brought her home from the hospital, they had five children under the age of 6, were $200,000 in debt, and only had $35 in their bank account.

The ranch home where Hageman lived with her parents and four older siblings as a small child did not have a telephone and initially did not even have electricity. 

“We were pretty isolated, but we were raised where I was driving when I was four years old to help Dad feed [the animals],” Hageman said. “We were riding horses, we were moving cows, we were fixing fences, we were all very engaged in the ranching business, because you had to be. I think it's one of the reasons that a lot of ranching families had lots of kids, because that was the cheap labor, and that was no exception in my family.”

Hageman went on to attend a community college in Wyoming and spent a couple of years judging livestock before going on to law school and having a successful career as a trial attorney for 34 years. In 2021, she announced her run for Congress. 

“The reason that I made the decision to run for Congress was that, because Wyoming only has one [at large] representative, I think we really need to make it count. We need to focus on what is in the best interest of Wyoming,” Hageman said. 

In August 2022, Hageman defeated Republican incumbent Rep. Liz Cheney, a vociferous critic of Donald Trump, in the GOP primary. She won in November 2022 and won reelection in 2024. 

“I did not feel like my predecessor was here on behalf of Wyoming,” Hageman said, referring to Cheney. “I felt that she was here on behalf of herself, the military-industrial complex, and then near the end, the effort to destroy President Trump and anyone who was one of his supporters.” 

Hageman joins “Problematic Women” to share her journey to Congress and discuss the changes she has seen to the country since Trump returned to office on Jan. 20. 

Also on today’s show, we discuss how the Trump administration is restoring safety to America’s streets through an aggressive crackdown on crime and how the president’s policies are rebuilding patriotism across the nation. 

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