Daines Leads Senate Effort with Republican Colleagues to Block Taxpayer Funded Payments to Illegal Immigrants
U.S. SENATE — U.S. Senator Steve Daines (Mont.) today introduced an amendment to the “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022” to block President Biden’s reported plan to spend upwards of a billion dollars to provide $450,000 per person in taxpayer money for settlements for illegal immigrants. “Biden’s open border policies have reached a new crazy level. Montana families are struggling with inflation and skyrocketing costs on everything from gas to groceries because of Biden’s wasteful spending policies, and now the President wants to give hundreds of thousands of dollars to illegal immigrants. Because of Biden, our southern border has been taken over by Mexican cartels and this effort will only continue to
Daines Calls on Senate Democrats to Act on His Bill to Return Grizzly Bear Management Back to Montana
U.S. SENATE — U.S. Senator Steve Daines is calling on Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Senate Democrats to take action on his bill, the “Grizzly Bear State Management Act of 2021,” to return grizzly bear management in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem back to Montana. “As members representing the states impacted by the recovery of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) grizzly bear, we write to ask for immediate consideration of S. 973, the Grizzly Bear State Management Act of 2021… The legislation is simple but of utmost importance to the lives and livelihoods of our residents and
Daines to Biden: Vaccine Mandates Could Impact MT Wildland Firefighters, Wildfire Response
U.S. SENATE — U.S. Senator Steve Daines is calling on Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to reassess the vaccine mandate for Montana firefighters that could inhibit effective forest management and wildfire response in the state. “In their roles, these federal wildland firefighters also coordinate emergency responses with state, local, and tribal partners, and are the tip of the spear to combat ongoing wildfire threats. As President Joe Biden stated earlier this year, ‘we’ve got to be prepared and have every resource available to make sure we’re there for the American people.’ The full availability of these
Daines: Biden’s New Overreaching Methane Reduction Action Plan Hurts Every Sector, It’s Government Control Gone Mad
U.S. SENATE — U.S. Senator Steve Daines issued the following statement after it was announced that President Biden would be rolling out a “Methane Reduction Action Plan” that will impact nearly every sector in the economy. “Biden’s new mantra should be economic death by overregulation. Biden’s wide-sweeping methane initiative was created behind closed-doors and is merely a guise for his newest expansion of government control,” Daines said.“With Biden’s new methane rules, every single sector of our economy and jobs can expect to be impacted from energy to agriculture to homebuilding, and Montanans will pay the price. Overregulation is not the answer to success, innovation is.” For more
Daines Doubles Down on Biden Admin to Act on MMIW Crisis Following His Efforts to Get GAO Study
U.S. SENATE — U.S. Senator Steve Daines is once again urging the Biden administration to act to address the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Crisis (MMIW). Daines is calling on Attorney General Merrick Garland, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and the Administration to implement his bills, the “Not Invisible Act of 2019” and “Savanna’s Act,” which help address the crisis. This comes after Daines successfully pushed the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct a review on efforts to combat the MMIW crisis and GAO released its findings this week. “The recent GAO report found the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department of the Interior (DOI) have failed
Daines, Lankford: Democrats’ Reckless Tax & Spending Bill Violates Hyde Amendment, Expands Taxpayer Funding for Abortions
U.S. SENATE — U.S. Senators Steve Daines (R-Mont.) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) today released a new memo detailing how the Democrats’ multitrillion dollar tax and spending bill would violate the Hyde Amendment and radically expand taxpayer funding for abortions. “Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to spending their hard-earned tax dollars on funding abortions. The Democrats’ big government, reckless tax and spending bill strips Hyde Amendment protections and expands abortion subsidies. This is an egregious attack on life and the American taxpayer. Protecting taxpayer dollars from funding abortions has not been a controversial issue for decades and it should not be one now. This is unacceptable,” Daines
Daines Cosponsors Bipartisan Bill to Expand Peer Counseling, Increase Montanans’ Access to Mental Health Services
U.S. SENATE — U.S. Senator Steve Daines, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care, cosponsored a bipartisan bill, the “PEERS Act,” to expand access to peer support services for Montanans with mental health and substance use conditions. “The COVID-19 pandemic has put a great strain on an already stretched thin mental health system, especially when it comes to the mental and behavioral health care workforce. Allowing Medicare to cover peer support services would expand critical access to care for individuals in Montana with mental illness or substance use conditions. It would also help build upon the successful peer support network in Montana, which helps deliver recovery-oriented behavioral health services
Daines to Yellen: Biden Policies are Greater Threat to Financial Stability, Energy Security than Climate Change
U.S. SENATE — U.S. Senator Steve Daines is calling out Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen for designating climate change as an emerging threat to financial stability, but ignoring the very real and present threat that the Biden administration’s war on made in Montana and made in America energy poses to the financial stability of Montanans and all Americans. “I write to express concern with the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s recent designation of climate change as an emerging and increasing threat to U.S. financial stability while ignoring the present threats of increased instability and rampant cost surges due to rapid closures of reliable baseload power. It is unclear to me that
Daines to Garland: Stop Intimidating, Silencing Montana Parents
U.S. SENATE — U.S. Senator Steve Daines slammed U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland for issuing a memorandum directing government agencies to investigate Montana parents who provide input to local school boards. Daines is demanding Garland rescind the memorandum and stop silencing Montana parents. “While any actual threat of violence is inappropriate, it was unacceptable for the Department of Justice to make a blanket declaration that parents exercising their First Amendment rights and expressing their views at local school board meetings may warrant investigation by federal law enforcement. This scenario has already had a chilling effect on free speech in Montana and eroded confidence in public schools even