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Forstag on the transgender debate: “[My mom] taught me that government has no business sticking its nose into our personal lives, whether that's a gun safe, whether that's a doctor's office. I don't want a politician anywhere near it. So, let's leave sports to the leagues that actually run them. Let's let people live their lives with dignity and make their own private personal decisions and let's keep politics the heck out of it. Because what I see with that kind of anger and rhetoric…they're singing and dancing while they pick our pockets.”

Billings Clinic is paying $625,000 a year for an H-1B anesthesiologist. The prevailing wage for that role in Montana is $239,000. That is 2.6x the government standard. Red flags are all over this filing. The documents list two worksite locations, but only one is disclosed. The point of contact isn't a CMO or a department chair; it’s a "Physician Recruitment Manager." Meanwhile, Gov. Gianforte was in India signing bioscience and university partnership MOUs. Billings Clinic needs to answer a few simple questions: What was the actual recruitment process? How many Montanans or US citizens applied? Why couldn't a $625,000 salary attract a single American doctor? The H-1B system is for genuine shortages. Claiming "we couldn't find anyone" while offering nearly triple the prevailing wage is a joke. Show the recruitment records or stop pretending this is a shortage. Source: Department of Labor / LCS Case I-200-26141-938834