I’m a Montanan who wants my kids to grow up the way I did.
I’m a Montanan who wants my kids to grow up the way I did – with opportunity, freedom, and a sense of responsibility. Right now, the Montana we know and love is being sold to billionaires and wealthy corporations by people like Ryan Zinke – he’s giving them tax breaks while making our lives harder. I am running for Congress to fight for the people who make this state great. This election is about choosing a new path, and I’m asking you to join me – this is literally the fight of our lives.
It’s time to stand up to the out-of-state billionaires and the wealthy corporations. It’s time we had a congressman who fights for real Montanans.
Meet Ryan
BUSSE
Ryan grew up on a family cow-calf ranch and wheat farm and graduated with 16 classmates from a rural public school. Together with his wife Sara, they have raised their two boys in northwest Montana, hunting, fishing, and living in this wonderful place we all call home.
Ryan is a passionate outdoorsman, a respected state and national conservation leader, and for more than 25 years, he also helped build an iconic American gun company from Kalispell. But he left that job because he feared irresponsible political extremism was threatening our public lands and our nation.
Today, he sees the same thing happening to Montana – obscene wealth and dangerous partisanship are threatening our state. The people who make this the last best place can’t afford to live here. Our. Our kids can’t stay. Ryan Zinke, whose net worth has skyrocketed to nearly $ 40 million while in Congress, cheers every disastrous policy that makes our lives worse. Healthcare, housing, and grocery costs are much higher. All the while, Zinke celebrates his votes for billions in tax breaks to people like Elon Musk and his fellow private-jet billionaire class.
Real Montanans don’t care how much money you make, but we expect a level playing field. Ryan Busse will demand it. It’s time that every Montanan had affordable health care coverage. It’s time for a tax system that forces billionaire hedge fund managers to pay at least as much as fishing guides, waitresses, and snowplow drivers. It’s time for a representative who doesn’t fake being a cowboy, doesn’t live in California, isn’t corrupt, and cares about the people who make this state great.
It’s time to send Ryan Busse to Congress.
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Ryan's Priorities
Ryan's Priorities
Ryan makes this simple promise: every vote and bill sponsorship, every action, every speech and press appearance will be laser-focused on improving the lives of working people in the state of Montana. Billionaires and wealthy corporations have their lobbyists and lawyers and influence, and they’ve rigged the system to their benefit. They’ve had help from Ryan Zinke. Now, it’s time for the people of Montana to have our champion, to exert our influence, and to demand our change.
Healthcare
In a nation where Republicans give billionaires tax breaks to take their friends on weekend rocket rides into space for fun, it’s not too much to ask that all of us down here on earth have accessible, affordable, high-quality healthcare. Ryan Zinke has done the opposite, and has cast votes for increasing ACA costs for tens of thousands of Montanans and drastically weakening Medicaid, which will force closures to our rural hospitals and disproportionately harm Native communities.
Fair Taxation
Taxes are part of our affordability crisis. I will fight against the current lobbyist-made system that taxes the labor of people at higher rates than the wealth created by that labor. We should not give tax breaks for private jets, and workers should not pay higher tax rates than hedge fund managers who avoid taxes through loopholes such as the carried interest loophole. Ryan Zinke has become extremely wealthy doing favors for billionaires and even lobbying for corporations that pay little to no taxes. I will fight for the people who make our state great, because the people who profit from our work already have plenty of influence.
Federal Employees
When Ryan Zinke mocked and even celebrated the DOGEing of tenured, well-qualified, critical federal employees, it had nothing to do with efficiency. Elon Musk’s thoughtless chainsawing of Montana’s federal workforce was ill-advised, counterproductive, and expensive. Zinke literally laughed off those impacts on national TV, even as they weakened our communities. Zinke further demonstrated his disdain for federal employees when, on December 11, 2025, he voted NO on HR 2550, which would restore collective bargaining rights. The bill passed because other members of his party voted yes, showing the courage to stand up to the White House, but not Zinke. His actions are a slap in the face to all of us who know that federal employees based in Montana are a key part of our state.
Public Lands
This is personal to me. I’ve devoted much of my life to fighting for our public lands. Republicans like Zinke spend their lives doing the work of giant corporations or voting with the radicals dismantling these places. Zinke poses for the camera when elections roll around, but his career is full of the worst kind of sellouts. I will never waver in the fight to protect roadless areas, clean water, and national parks. I’ll advocate for increased public access, including corner crossings. Ryan Zinke gutted wildlife protections and weakened the Antiquities Act, jeopardizing millions of acres of our public land. I know that public lands are critical to Montanans’ lives and livelihoods, and it’s not too much to demand that your congressman acts, votes, and fights like it.
Affordability
This isn’t just a talking point — it’s everything. It means fighting tariffs that drive up costs, taking on monopolies like the big meatpackers, lowering healthcare costs, expanding access to childcare, cracking down on unfair bank fees, and holding drug companies accountable for sky-high prices. It means showing up every single day and fighting for Montanans in every policy debate.
Montana Agriculture
I grew up on a cow-calf ranch and wheat farm and know the joy and challenges of family agriculture. Montana ranchers and farmers have every right to be furious with the massive bailouts to Argentina and the irresponsible Republican tariffs that gut grain markets. I know that it’s bigger than that, too; venture capital and monopolistic pressures from large corporations are also at the root of our very serious agricultural crisis. Again, Montana ranchers and farmers deserve a representative who will fight for them, not the big corporations. On this, I give you my word. Ranching and farming are literally in my blood.
Veterans
Standing up for veterans means actually supporting programs and institutions, not making false promises or constantly posing for the camera. We owe it to our veterans to fully fund the VA. But Zinke, a veteran who should know better, supported DOGEing thousands of VA doctors and support staff so that billionaires could get a bigger tax cut. I also know that veterans are public landowners and community members who care about taxes, opportunity, affordability, and community, just like everyone else. Veterans served so that our state and nation could be a great place to live and raise a family, and we owe it to them to make that more, not less, possible.
