Press Releases

Hawley Statement on Biden Proposal to Overrule Workers in Rail Negotiations

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) released the following statement on the potential rail strike after the Biden Administration announced it supports government intervention on behalf of large corporations by overruling the requests of union workers. A rail strike could begin as early as Dec. 9, 2022, if a new agreement is not struck.

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Hawley Investigation: DHS Documents Expose Shocking New Details on Disinfo Board Censorship Agenda

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) revealed new documents obtained from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as part of his investigation into President Joe Biden’s plans to establish a so-called “Disinformation Governance Board” to monitor and suppress the speech of American citizens. The hundreds of pages of heavily redacted internal emails, which can be read in full below, expose that DHS’s plans for the Disinformation Governance Board were much more extensive than the Biden administration has publicly acknowledged.  In June, whistleblower documents obtained by Senators Hawley and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) revealed a first-look at DHS’s internal plans for the Disinformation Governance Board, including a potential partnership with Twitter and a...

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Hawley Demands Apple Condemn CCP COVID Crackdown, Reduce Reliance on Foreign Labor

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Apple's Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook urging him to reduce Apple's dependency on foreign labor in China and reshore production to the United States. Senator Hawley also called on Apple to explain why they limited the iPhone AirDrop feature in China, widely used by anti-CCP protestors, and respond to reports that they have threatened to remove Twitter from the App Store. Read the full letter here or below.  November 29, 2022  Mr. Tim Cook  Chief Executive Officer  Apple Inc.  1 Apple Park Way  Cupertino, CA 95014  Dear Mr. Cook,  I write regarding Apple’s ongoing collaboration with the totalitarian Chinese government. Your continued dependency on...

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Hawley Op-Ed: The GOP is dead. A new GOP must listen to working people.

By U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) | Nov. 18, 2022 | Washington Post The old Republican Party is dead. It has been wasting away for years now, and this month’s midterm results are the finishing blow. If Republicans learn nothing else from this election, they must learn that much.  As frustrating as the election outcomes are, the death of the old GOP is no reasonto mourn. It just means that it’s time for Republicans to forge something new — a party that truly represents the cultural backbone of this nation: America’s working people.  [...]  For decades, Republican politicians have sung a familiar tune. On economics, they have cut taxes on the big corporations and talked about changing Social Security and Medicare — George W. Bush even tried to partially privatize...

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Following FTX Collapse, Hawley Demands Correspondence Between Regulators, the DNC, and the Biden White House

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler, and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Rostin Behnam demanding information and all correspondence between their agencies and Democratic Party officials following the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX.  Senator Hawley wrote, “The recent revelations about the cryptocurrency exchange platform, FTX, and its affiliated hedge fund, Alameda Research, are stunning. Public reporting has revealed that these businesses and their executives, most notably Sam Bankman-Fried, a top donor to the Democratic Party, defrauded customers of billions of dollars. The perpetrators of these criminal...

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Hawley Demands Answers on DHS ‘Disinformation’ Efforts

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, following a new report that the agency continues to collude with Big Tech to suppress Americans’ speech online. Secretary Mayorkas will testify this week before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday and the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Thursday. Senator Hawley serves on both committees. In his new letter, Senator Hawley wrote, "It is clear from the latest reports that you have deliberately withheld documents from Congress and the American public about your efforts to suppress speech. Your actions are a blatant disregard for congressional oversight and a violation of statutory law.” Following...

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Hawley: Beijing ‘lost its marbles’ over legislation to sanction CCP

The Chinese Embassy is furiously rebuking new legislation introduced by U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) to sanction President Xi Jinping over the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s complicity in Uyghur genocide in Xinjiang. Senator Hawley issued the following comment in response to the Chinese Embassy’s criticism: Last week, Senator Hawley introduced new legislation to personally sanction Chinese President Xi Jinping, along with his top lieutenants in the CCP, over their complicity in the Uyghur genocide in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The legislation would impose Global Magnitsky Sanctions on President Xi and other CCP officials—freezing their assets and barring them from traveling to the U.S.—and direct the Secretary of State,...

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