The file

John Barrasso

Republican · Senate Majority Whip · Wyoming · Spectrum score +51

Senate · 2026 ballot ·

John Barrasso is Senate Majority Whip in Wyoming. Political positions and ideology score +51 (Right). Barrasso is the doctor in the extractive state.

College: Georgetown University, B.S. 1974 · Georgetown University School of Medicine, M.D. 1978
Spouse: Bobbi Barrasso (m. 1986; prior marriage ended)
Children: Three
Résumé: Senate Majority Whip · 2025–
U.S. Senator · Wyoming · 2007–
Orthopedic surgeon · Casper, Wyoming · 1983–2007

Net worth: $8.0M
Salary: $174,000
Before office: $2.0M
2026 raised: $7.8M
Years in office: 19

Where John stands on the spectrum

John Barrasso scores +51 on Spectrum’s left–right line (right), right of center on the economy and conservative on social issues. The number is modeled from twelve issue positions and the public record — not a poll and not a party label.

Composite +51 · Right · economic +53 · social +46 · authoritarian +26

Confidence 94. How we calculate scores →

Background & record

Barrasso is the doctor in the extractive state. The file is oil-and-gas receipts and a medical fortune that predates the whip. When energy bills move, he is not a spectator.

Finances

Modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit of any household.

Net worth

$8.0M

+300% since taking office

Senate disclosure midpoint, 2024

Before office$2.0M

Now$8.0M

Casper orthopedic surgeon. Practice plus energy-state money. Majority whip is a raise.

Money in · 2026 cycle

Raised: $7.8M
Cash on hand: $4.1M

Top industries

Oil & gas
Health
Leadership PACs

Stock holdings

Individual common stock

Wyoming energy plus leftover medical practice assets. The whip gavel sits on top of oil.

Senate disclosure, 2024 · STOCK Act ranges, not an audit

XOM
Exxon Mobil
Self · Energy
$50K–$100K
CVX
Chevron
Self
$15K–$50K
VTI
Index funds
Self
$250K–$500K

Ticker	Name	Owner	Range
XOM	Exxon MobilEnergy	Self	$50K–$100K
CVX	Chevron	Self	$15K–$50K
VTI	Index funds	Self	$250K–$500K

Sum of ranges $315K–$650K · midpoint $483K

X sentiment

Last 7 days

Odds

Polymarket · Kalshi

Implied probability from open contracts. Real money, not a poll. Updates while you sit here.

Live wire

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Conflicts

Wyoming energy vs a whip operation that has to count coastal Republicans too.
Physician who legislates the agencies that price his old profession.

Issue detail

−100 left pole · +100 right pole

Economic: +53
Social: +46
Authoritarian: +26
Confidence: 94

Taxes & spending+54
Lower taxes, smaller fiscal footprint
Health care+42
Private insurance markets, fewer mandates
Climate & energy+64
Energy abundance, fewer climate mandates
Business regulation+62
Deregulation and lighter administrative state
Labor & wages+44
Flexible labor markets, right-to-work
Immigration+46
Tighter borders, more deportations
Abortion+48
Restrictions or bans, fetal personhood
Guns+56
Broad Second Amendment, fewer federal limits
Crime & policing+50
More policing, longer sentences, less bail reform
Schools & speech+46
Choice, against gender/DEI curricula
Defense & alliances+58
Hard power, high defense spending, deterrence
Civil liberties+30
Order, platform / campus / speech restrictions for security or morality

Legislative first dimension (NOMINATE-like): 0.53

Compass

Auth · leftAuth · rightLib · leftLib · rightAuthoritarianLibertarianEconomic leftEconomic right

Sources

GovTrack 2024
Wealth and fundraising are modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit.
College, family, and résumé are public-record facts, not a campaign bio.