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U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin’s 7th congressional district and Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert led 30 members of Congress to reintroduce legislation to remove the gray wolf from the Endangered Species List. The Pet and Livestock Protection Act requires the Secretary of the Interior to reissue the 2020 Department of the Interior final rule that delisted gray wolves in the lower 48 United States. It also ensures this rule cannot be overturned through judicial review, preventing activist judges, like the California judge who vacated the rule in 2022, from relisting the gray wolf by judicial fiat.

Two Republican house members introduced bill Friday that would take grey wolves off the endangered species list, citing a significant population rebound that puts livestock, pets and humans alike in danger. Republican Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert and Republican Wisconsin Rep. Tom Tiffany introduced the Pet and Livestock Protection Act, which would direct the secretary of the interior to reinstate a 2020 final rule that removed the predator from the list in the lower 48 states, sending population management back to the state governments.

As the second week of Donald Trump's presidency begins, a western Wisconsin congressman is introducing legislation that would ban Diversity, Equity and Inclusion known as DEI, in the federal government. It's called the 'FAIR Act' and it was introduced by 7th Congressional Representative Tom Tiffany. 18 News spoke with Tiffany Monday while he held a listening session in Ladysmith.

Rep. Tom Tiffany wants to turn President Trump’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs both in the federal government and in sectors that receive federal funding into law. Mr. Tiffany, Wisconsin Republican, plans to introduce the Fairness, Anti-Discrimination and Individual Rights Act, or FAIR Act, on Thursday. It follows the executive order from Mr. Trump this week that shuttered DEI offices in the government and banned affirmative action in federal contracting.

Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) on Breitbart News Daily said that the Republican reconciliation bill can secure the border, unleash energy development, all the while slashing the deficit. Tiffany spoke to Breitbart News Daily host Mike Slater as Republicans have begun work on the GOP reconciliation bill, which aims to secure the border, unleash American energy development, and all the while being paid for by cutting spending.

On the federal level, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has filed an appeal that seeks to remove the wolf from ESA protections. And the 2025-26 Congress may take up bills, one co-authored by Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wisconsin) and another by Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin), that seek to delist the wolf through legislation.

Two years ago, Baldwin and Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Black Earth, and Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Minocqua, joined members of Congress from other states that are top producers of the fruits in asking the FDA to reconsider its definition of healthy foods.

Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) went off on United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Ur Jaddou during a hearing this week after she suggested she has no regrets about her role in the Biden administration’s record-breaking illegal immigration wave to the United States.