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About a week before President Donald Trump’s Fourth of July signing of the One Big Beautiful Bill, the co-chairmen of the Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Appropriations Committee made a request of the state’s congressional delegation.

Rep. John Bear, R-Gillette, and Sen. Tim Salazar, R-Riverton, asked the delegation to consider either amending the bill or bringing future legislation to avoid a $50 million annual revenue loss for the state.

In return for the bill’s rate reduction to federal mineral royalties for coal, the two lawmakers asked that Wyoming get a larger slice of the pie that’s usually split down the middle with the feds.

“Thank you in a

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