Rep. Guggenmos is a Freedom Caucus follower who was endorsed by the WY Freedom PAC in 2024.

In the Legislature’s 2026 budget session, Rep. Guggenmos voted for all 10 of the Freedom Caucus’ priority bills. He voted along with Freedom Caucus chair Rachel Rodriguez-Williams 95% of the time on bills tracked in Better Wyoming’s 2026 Grassroots Accountability Report.

This was a similar performance to the Legislature’s 2025 session, when Guggenmos voted for all 28 of the Freedom Caucus priority bills. He voted along with Freedom Caucus chair Rachel Rodriguez-Williams 90% of the time on bills tracked in Better Wyoming’s 2025 Grassroots Accountability Report.

Guggenmos announced his candidacy for re-election in 2026, despite the fact that he is constitutionally barred from running since he lived outside of his legislative district for most of 2025.

Citing the state law that bars him from running in 2026, Guggenmos ultimately didn’t file to be a candidate.

Lived outside of his district for months

Near the end of his two-year term, after campaigning for “election integrity,”

Rep. Guggenmos made headlines across the state when constituents became aware that he spent the majority of his second year living outside Riverton’s House District 55.

After dodging questions for months from voters and the media about his residency, the legislator was found to be living in an RV in Fremont County’s House District 33. He didn’t move back to the district he supposedly represented until April, shortly before the period to file his candidacy for reelection.

Fremont County Clerk Julie Freese, who determined the complaints had merit, forwarded them to the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office, which launched an investigation.

Opposes increased healthcare access

Rep. Guggenmos serves on the House Labor, Health and Social Services Committee. Nevertheless, voted against increased funding for EMS services, even though his community is in desperate need of solutions to ensure reliable ambulance services.

Fremont County is struggling to maintain ambulance service to a county that’s bigger than eight states. Last year it dipped into its reserves to pay for salary hikes for the company it contracts with after union complaints, but future funding is unstable.

The EMS bill, which passed despite Freedom Caucus opposition, increased state funding for ambulances by roughly $1.3 million. It also directed the Department of Health to develop enhanced rural and super-rural fee schedules for services.

Meanwhile, Guggenmos joined his Freedom Caucus fellows in the House to kill an increase in funding for skilled nursing homes. In Fremont County, where Guggenmos lives, more than one-fifth of the population is over 65 years old. That’s higher than both the state and national number of senior residents.

No food for hungry children

An estimated 20% of Wyoming children are food insecure, and the rate is higher in Fremont County.

But Rep. Guggenmos has voted repeatedly to reject funding to feed hungry Fremont County kids during the summer, when students who receive free or reduced lunches are out of school.

The first time was in 2025, when the Freedom Caucus refused to pass a bill so Wyoming could participate in the federal “SUN Bucks” program.

The issue returned in a budget amendment in 2026. But because of Freedom Caucus opposition in the House, including Rep. Guggenmos, it failed again.The program would have benefitted an estimated 32,000 kids statewide. 

Fortunately, Gov. Mark Gordon signed an executive order that will provide one-time funding to begin SUN Bucks in Wyoming in June. For it to receive future funding, it will have to go back to the Legislature.Jennie Gordon, Wyoming’s first lady, wrote an op-ed about the state’s lack of funding for child nutrition programs. “If we believe in feeding children during the school year,” Gordon wrote, “we must believe in feeding them during the summer. Hunger does not take a vacation.”

Votes Against Raises for State Workers

Rep. Guggenmos voted against cost-of-living raises for hardworking state employees during the 2026 budget session. The governor proposed bringing long overdue state employee salary increases from 2022 up to 2024 market levels to better help retain and attract workers.

Rep. Guggenmos stuck to the Freedom Caucus’ position against the cost-of-living raises for state employees. The Legislature approved the salary hikes, so state workers will be able to take a little bit more home this year, but no thanks to Rep. Guggenmos.

No to ‘Corner Crossing’ Bill

Rep. Guggenmos voted against hunters’ ability to access public land via “corner crossing.”

The proposal this year sought to simplify a 49-page civil-suit decision by the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals that held a landowner cannot block public access to public land in the checkerboard landscape across southern Wyoming.

That decision effectively legalized the practice of corner crossing in Wyoming and five other states within the 10th Circuit’s jurisdiction.

However, lawmakers such as Rep. Guggenmos killed a bill that would have simplified and codified the legality of corner crossing into state law.