Press Releases

Fails to Adequately Address Spending and Border Crises U.S. Senator Steve Daines today issued the following statement after voting against the latest spending package that includes more than $1.9 billion worth of earmarks and continues Washington’s wasteful spending habits. In addition, the bill fails to adequately address the crisis at the nation’s southern border. Every Senate Democrat voted against every border-related amendment that would help secure the border. “For the second time in a month, Washington is failing Montanans and the American people by passing yet another out-of-control spending bill that does nothing to restore much-needed sanity to our budget

U.S. Senator Steve Daines today joined Fox News’ America Reports in studio with John Roberts and Gillian Turner to discuss President Biden’s ongoing southern border invasion. Daines on Criminals Flooding the Southern Border: This is why Americans can’t wait to vote in November of 2024. I remember when we had President Trump here, he was negotiating with the Mexican government. That’s how we got the Remain in Mexico policy put in place. He told the Mexican government, ‘it’s going to be this way or else’, and that was the strength we need. And I mean, thank God for our sheriffs, for Governor Abbott, for the National Guard of

U.S. Senator Steve Daines today led his colleagues in introducing the “Supporting National Security with Spectrum Act” to fully fund the “Rip and Replace” program to remove Chinese components from our wireless communications systems. Without full funding, wireless and broadband providers across the United States will be saddled with billions of dollars in costs that could result in service blackouts and companies closing down, including many in eastern Montana. “Rural providers must have the resources and ability to remove compromised equipment, and without it, there is a serious national security risk. This service is also critical for many Montanans in

U.S. Senator Steve Daines today led his colleagues in introducing the “Supporting National Security with Spectrum Act” to fully fund the “Rip and Replace” program to remove Chinese components from our wireless communications systems. Without full funding, wireless and broadband providers across the United States will be saddled with billions of dollars in costs that could result in service blackouts and companies closing down, including many in eastern Montana. “Rural providers must have the resources and ability to remove compromised equipment, and without it, there is a serious national security risk. This service is also critical for many Montanans in

U.S. Senator Steve Daines today at a Senate Finance Committee hearing with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen delivered the following opening statement outlining how the Biden administration’s out of control spending and tax hikes have created economic hardship for working families: “My observation has been that the Administration has a pattern of saying one thing and doing something else, and that’s creating harm for Montanans. “First, you said inflation was transitory. And then we had Bidenflation’s 40-yea rhigh costs. The average taxpayer had $34,000 in lost wages and wiped out over $26 million low-income earners’ life savings. Finally, it took severe economic hardship for

Slams Biden for funding “Environmentally-Friendly” border while Hezbollah Terrorist Enters U.S. U.S. Senator Steve Daines today delivered remarks at the weekly Republican Senate Leadership press conference slamming Biden for trying to make the border green rather than secure: Watch Daines’ remarks HERE. “The thing I have observed over the last couple of weeks is that President Biden, the Democratic allies in Congress, they care more about installing EV charging stations at the border than stopping terrorists. “You recall that the Inflation Reduction Act, which every Senate Democrat supported, obviously did nothing to stop inflation, only actually accelerated it. It’s being used to

U.S. Senator Steve Daines issued the following statement today on the Biden administration’s latest EPA rule on tailpipe emissions from passenger cars and light and medium trucks, which will mandate more production of electric vehicles: “The heavy hand of Joe Biden’s administration continues its assault on working families in Montana and across the country. Make no mistake, this is yet another attempt by the administration to force its green agenda into every area of our lives. To achieve what the Biden administration is proposing, car manufacturers will be forced to make more electric vehicles and will pass the costs on to consumers in the

U.S. Senator Steve Daines and Congressman Ryan Zinke (MT-01) today organized and led a letter to Senate and House leadership in support of his legislation that would rename the VA Outpatient Clinic in Butte, MT, in honor of Charlie Dowd, Montana’s last Pearl Harbor survivor who passed away in March 2023. Senator Jon Tester and Congressman Matt Rosendale (MT-02) joined Daines and Zinke in sending the letter. “We write to you today in support of S. 2385, a bill to rename the VA Outpatient Clinic in Butte, Montana, to the “Charlie Dowd VA Clinic” – out of remembrance to Montana’s last