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You’ve been hearing it all year, 2024 is an election year, and with that comes campaigning, voter anxiety, and election safety issues.

Representative Dusty Johnson has been an avid proponent for election safety, heavily pushing for better restrictions when it comes to undocumented people being allowed to vote in elections.

U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson is now a member of the Fentanyl Policy Working Group, a part of Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party which works to address China’s part in the production of illegal fentanyl coming into the United States.

Gov. Kristi Noem held a press briefing in Dakota Dunes on Monday to give an update about storms and flooding in southeast South Dakota.

Rep. Dusty Johnson and leaders involved with emergency response also spoke at the press briefing in North Sioux City, South Dakota.

Gov. Noem said we all need to respect flood waters, and residents are asked to stay out of flooded areas.

Noem highlighted how quickly things can turn or worsen, noting a levee had to be built within a few hours this weekend.

The Memorial Day holiday usually begins the election-year countdown sprint where partisan politics typically overshadow serious legislation. But for Republicans in the House, last week ended with a victory: After more than 13 hours of markup last Thursday, the House Agriculture Committee passed their version of the farm bill.

A provision from legislation sponsored by U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD) last week passed the U.S. House Armed Services Committee as part of the annual defense bill.

The House Ag Committee has passed their version of the next five-year farm bill, but congressional leaders are less than hopeful the bill will get across the finish line before a new fall deadline. South Dakota Representative Dusty Johnson, one of the six main authors of the House version, says the bill includes several things he heard while holding listening sessions back home in South Dakota.

In 2022, following the turmoil of COVID lockdown policies that struck a crippling blow to the global economy, a fleet of Canadian truckers took part in a grand protest against the government of Justin Trudeau’s vaccine mandates for their industry, occupying several blocks of the Canadian capital of Ottawa.

The U.S. House of Representatives on May 22 approved legislation led by Republicans that would establish a regulatory framework for digital assets.

The House-approved Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act, H.R. 4763, also known as FIT21, which U.S. Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson (R-PA) sponsored in July 2023 alongside four original cosponsors, including U.S. Reps. French Hill (R-AR), Dusty Johnson (R-SD), and Tom Emmer (R-MN), now heads to the U.S. Senate for consideration.