You have been able to carry a gun in a national park since 2010. The one thing still off-limits is inside the visitor center and the ranger station. Yakym's Federal Lands Lawful Carry Act would end that — endorsed by the NRA, Gun Owners of America and the Second Amendment Foundation.
"We have consistently supported and will continue to support Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans," he said in May 2025. In November 2025 they lost it. On June 9, 2026, he cast a deciding vote for $70 billion in new immigration enforcement money.
Baumgartner pronounced the killing of Renee Good justified on the word of two unnamed officials — after clearer video had already contradicted the government's account. He also called Washington's governor 'highly irresponsible' for reacting.
H.R. 8953 would let a state require a photo ID, a piece of mail, or residency papers before a pantry hands out free food — reversing a USDA rule barring identification documents as an eligibility test. Yakym is the only sponsor. The problem he describes is people going to more than one pantry.
A year-long Florida Bulldog investigation traced the money behind Li'l Abner III — the project that displaced about 3,000 working-class and elderly mobile home park residents in Sweetwater. Diaz-Balart certified he had "no financial interest."
In one CNN interview on July 31, 2026, Baumgartner made a false claim about airport ID, cited a New Jersey case that undercuts the bill he voted for, and blamed Biden for the economy before saying presidents shouldn't be blamed for the economy.
On August 6, 2026, the GAO reported that DOGE's savings claims were incorrect or unsupported — including $1.7 billion booked on a Pentagon contract that was never actually cancelled. Lee had passed the numbers along to her constituents as fact.
Outside groups poured $5 million into Indiana's 8th District's 2024 primary — the sixth most expensive congressional race in America that spring. Messmer's own campaign raised less than a third of that. Then he took a seat writing the rules for one of his biggest backers.
Asked on NewsNation whether 18 months in it's Trump's economy yet, Yakym said the president was "left with a mess to clean up." A new study says 2025's tariffs cost the average Hoosier household $2,600 and wiped out 9,148 Indiana manufacturing jobs.