Press Releases
Senator Hawley Statement on Trump Arraignment
Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) released the following statement on the arraignment of former President Trump: Senator Hawley also called the case against former President Trump "beyond absurd" and a "travesty."
Hawley Statement on Army Black Hawk Crash
Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) released the following statement on the Army Black Hawk crash near Fort Campbell, Kentucky this week.
Hawley Demands Army Provide Update on Plan to Replace Housing at Fort Leonard Wood
Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to the Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth requesting, for the third time, the Army's plan for replacing the aging homes at Fort Leonard Wood. "I write again to request the Army’s plan for replacing aging homes at Fort Leonard Wood. You committed to share this information in May 2022 and again in October 2022, but the Army still has not sent it," wrote Senator Hawley. "This lack of responsiveness suggests the Army may not actually have a plan for meeting Fort Leonard Wood’s housing requirements in contradiction of your previous assurances. The Army has made some progress—but only under duress and far more remains to be done." He continued, "Service members and their families at Fort Leonard Wood deserve...
Hawley Pushes Biden Administration to Explain their ‘Concierge Service for Illegals’
Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas demanding answers on the Department's new CBP One app. "Under your leadership, the Department is marketing a new phone app, called CBP One, that allows unauthorized migrants to reserve a time to cross the border, like making a restaurant reservation. How convenient," wrote Senator Hawley. He continued, "I imagine there are plenty of Americans who would appreciate this level of service from their government. Your choice to spend untold sums of taxpayer money—you said you had no idea what it cost—on concierge service for illegals is baffling. It is also revealing. It demonstrates your priorities: open borders, no matter the cost to Americans; no...
Hawley Request to Unanimously Pass Bill to Ban TikTok Blocked on Senate Floor
Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) delivered remarks on the Senate floor and called for unanimous consent on his legislation to ban TikTok in the United States, due to its serious threat to national security, rampant data collection on American users, and the application's close connection to the Chinese Communist Party. "We should act decisively to ban TikTok directly. We shouldn't give new open-ended authority to federal bureaucrats, we should target this threat specifically. That's what this bill does that we have before us today and it goes right at the problem. It bans TikTok in this country, it protects the American people, and it sends the message to Communist China that you cannot buy us," said Senator Hawley. Senator Hawley's call to unanimously...
Hawley and Warren Lead Bipartisan Legislation to Claw Back Compensation From Executives Responsible for Bank Failures
Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), introduced the Failed Bank Executives Clawback Act, bipartisan legislation that would require that, in the event of a bank failures like Silicon Valley Bank, federal regulators claw back all or part of the compensation received by bank executives in the five-year period preceding the failure. Currently, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s (FDIC) ability to claw back executive compensation in the event of a bank failure is limited. The Failed Bank Executives Clawback Act would give federal bank regulators the tools they need to hold executives of failed banks responsible for the costs those failures exact on the rest of the banking...
Hawley Demands FBI and DHS Investigate Deadly Attack on Christian School as Hate Crime
Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas calling for an investigation into the deadly massacre that occurred at The Covenant School yesterday as a federal hate crime. "Yesterday the nation witnessed the vicious murder of small schoolchildren in Nashville, Tennessee. [...] It is commonplace to call such horrors 'senseless violence.' But properly speaking, that is false. Police report that the attack here was “targeted”—targeted, that is, against Christians," wrote Senator Hawley. He continued, "The full resources of the federal government must be brought to bear to determine how this crime occurred,...
Hawley Introduces Resolution Condemning The Covenant School Shooting as a Hate Crime
Following the senseless and targeted attack on Christian children and adults at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tenn., U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced a resolution condemning the deadly shooting as a federal hate crime. "This murderous rampage, this taking of innocent life, was a horrific crime. But more specifically, it was a hate crime," said Senator Hawley. "It is a crime under federal law to target and commit acts of violence against Americans because of their religious beliefs, because of their religious affiliation, or because of their religious practices. This should not happen in the United States of America, and now we must act to see that it does not spread." Senator Hawley also delivered remarks on the...
Hawley Grills Mayorkas on ‘CBP One’ App, Calling it a ‘Ticketmaster’ for Illegal Immigration
Today in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) questioned Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, slamming him over his failed handling of the crisis at the southern border and his rollout of the agency’s “CBP One” app for illegal migrants. Senator Hawley called the Biden administration’s use of the app, saying it incentivizes more illegal immigration, muddles the immigration process, and acts as a concierge service for immigrants to make appointments to come across the border and likely stay in the country illegally. "So rather than building a wall, Mr. Secretary, you have built Ticketmaster for illegal immigrants," said Senator Hawley. "Just respond to this—Is it true that they are given no interviews,...
Hawley Delivers Floor Speech Urging Support for Ukraine Inspector General Amendment
Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) delivered remarks ahead of the Senate's vote on his amendment that would require a special inspector general position be created to track all taxpayer money that has been sent to Ukraine since 2022. "My amendment is very simple," said Senator Hawley. "Let's create one government watch dog, not two, not three, not twenty, one government watchdog, to oversee every cent that is spent on Ukraine, to report back to this Congress and to the American people, as to how their hard-earned money is being spent." Senator Hawley penned an op-ed earlier this week, calling upon Congress to pass his amendment that would set up the special inspector general to Ukraine. Earlier this month, Senator...