Category: Press Release

“We Delivered on Our Promise to Support Trump’s America First Agenda” U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senator Steve Daines today issued the following statement after the passage of the Senate reconciliation bill.   “The American people were clear in November that they were ready for change. Today we delivered on our promise to support President Trump’s America First agenda. The Big Beautiful Bill secures the border, strengthens our national security, unleashes American energy, reduces wasteful spending and cuts taxes for working families. Montanans will be better off because of this bill and I was proud to support it,” said Daines. ### Contact: Matt Lloyd, Gabby Wiggins

Major Daines Tax Priorities Included in Big Beautiful Bill U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senator Steve Daines today lauded the inclusion of several of his biggest tax priorities in the Senate reconciliation bill. The Big Beautiful Bill includes Daines’ provision to make President Trump’s 20-percent pass-through business tax deduction permanent, as well as permanency for the New Markets Tax Credit and estate tax relief.   “Making President Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent has been one of my top priorities this Congress. My bill, the Main Street Tax Certainty Act, made the small business deduction permanent and prevented a $4.6 trillion dollar tax increase

“Public Lands Belong in Public Hands” U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senators Tim Sheehy and Steve Daines issued the following joint statement after blocking a provision that would sell public lands from being included in the One Big Beautiful Bill. Debate on the bill is scheduled to begin later today but the provision was removed from the bill late last night: “Public lands belong in public hands. Blocking the sale of public lands is a victory for our Montana way of life. “We look forward to the final passage of the Big Beautiful Bill in order to prevent the largest tax increase in American history, secure the border,

U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senator Steve Daines today joined Stuart Varney on Fox Business to react to the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling on nationwide injunctions, as well as the latest updates on the Middle East.  Watch the full interview HERE. Daines On the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Nationwide Injunctions: Clearly a win for President Trump, as the president is working here to secure our nation and to ensure that we have the right processes for immigration in this country and not an abuse of it. The president has been bold in his leadership. He’s taken an out-of-control situation with our open border and

U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senator Steve Daines today joined Fox Business to discuss the importance of passing the “One Big Beautiful Bill” and stopping the largest tax increase in American history. Watch the full interview HERE. Daines on the stopping the largest tax increase in American history: I’ve yet to meet an American that wants to see their taxes go up. And let’s just keep in mind, this bill stops the largest tax increase in American history. The average working family in America will see a $1,700 per year increase in their taxes if we don’t act in Congress. Not to mention the fact

U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senator Steve Daines (R-Mont.) and Representative Adrian Smith (R-Neb.) today sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick. The letter commends the administration for their ongoing trade negotiations to support American producers and manufacturers.  “We write to you to express our strong support for ongoing trade negotiations to level the playing field for American producers and manufacturers. President Trump’s decision to pause the implementation of certain reciprocal tariffs creates momentum to secure meaningful and enforceable agreements for U.S. agricultural producers, energy producers,

U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senators Steve Daines (R-Mont.) and Gary Peters (D-Mich.) today announced that their bipartisan resolution to designate the month of June as “Great Outdoors Month” passed the U.S. Senate last evening. “In Montana, our outdoor way of life is what sets us apart and makes us the Last Best Place. As an avid outdoorsman myself, I’m proud to work with Senator Peters on this bipartisan resolution that celebrates the amazing natural beauty we’re lucky to have here in America. I hope everyone takes some time to get outside and enjoy our parks and lands this summer!” said Daines. “From being out on the Great Lakes to hiking

Discuss Grid Reliability, Baseload Power, and the North Plains Connector U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senator Steve Daines today spoke with Secretary of Energy Chris Wright about supporting Montana’s energy priorities. The two discussed grid reliability and the necessity of baseload power. Daines also emphasized his support for the North Plains Connector and Montana refineries. Watch the full exchange HERE. Daines on the Importance of Grid Reliability and Baseload Power: Daines: Secretary Wright, it’s great to have you back here. Last week, the EPA announced they’ve started the process to roll back President Biden’s anti-energy rules, including MATS and Clean Power Plan 2.0. The Biden

U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senator Steve Daines spoke with NewsNation last evening to discuss the importance of supporting Israel in their fight to end Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Watch the full interview HERE. Daines On Unity Among Republicans Supporting Israel: We had lunch with J.D. Vance today on Capitol Hill, the Vice President, our former colleague in the Senate, came and had lunch with us Republican senators. And I’ll just tell you, there’s widespread support for what’s going on right now in terms of supporting Israel. Well, he gave us an update. He’s spending a lot of time in the situation room because of

U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senator Steve Daines today joined The Will Cain Show to discuss strengthening the Medicaid program and preventing the largest tax increase in history. Watch the full interview HERE. Daines on Medicaid reform: The bottom line is this, Republicans are trying to save Medicaid. We want to strengthen Medicaid, while the Democrats are trying to drain Medicaid. So the reforms that we are proposing, what you just described there in the so-called provider tax, that’s just a scheme that are used by the states to actually get more dollars than the federal government. This is one of the fastest growing entitlements currently