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In the News: Daily Signal Exclusive: Daines Introduces Bipartisan Bill to Codify First Lady’s Foster Care Initiatives

April 16, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Steve Daines will introduce a bill today to codify First Lady Melania Trump’s foster care initiatives. Read more in the Daily Signal below. Daines Introduces Bipartisan Bill to Codify First Lady’s Foster Care Initiatives Daily Signal Virginia Grace McKinnon April 16th, 2026 FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., will introduce bipartisan legislation Thursday to codify key aspects of first lady Melania Trump’s “Fostering the Future” initiative. The move comes after the first lady made a rare trip to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, where she addressed members of the House Ways and Means Committee and urged Congress to put her

Daines on Fox Business: If We Were Playing Poker, the Iranians Have No Cards and America Has Them All

April 16, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Steve Daines today joined Stuart Varney on Fox Business to discuss the latest on the Iran war and energy prices. Watch the full interview HERE. Daines on the success of the U.S. military: I’m cheering for the good guys. It’s remarkable what the U.S. military has done under President Trump and Secretary Hegseth’s leadership. They have decapitated the command and control structure in Iran. They’ve removed their political leadership. They’ve destroyed the nuclear capabilities. They’ve destroyed their ballistic missiles. Remember, the Iranians did fire one intermediate ballistic missile that went 2,500 miles near Diego Garcia. To put

Daines, Klobuchar, Boozman, Warnock Lead Letter to USTR Emphasizing Support of U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, Urging Market Access for American Producers

April 15, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), John Boozman (R-Ark.), and Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) led a letter to U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Jamieson Greer emphasizing their support of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) ahead of the Agreement’s six-year joint review and urging expanded market access and certainty for American producers. “The United States is currently the world’s largest agricultural exporter, with total agricultural exports valued at $176 billion in 2024. Since the Agreement’s entry-into-force, U.S. agricultural exports have increased substantially, particularly to Canada and Mexico. For many states, Canada and Mexico represent the largest and second-largest export markets. The

Daines in Senate Finance Committee: The Working Families Tax Cuts are Putting More Money in Americans’ Pockets

April 15, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Steve Daines today spoke with CEO of the Internal Revenue Service Frank Bisignano in a Senate Finance Committee hearing about how the Working Families Tax Cuts is providing historic relief for hardworking Americans as well as the importance of Social Security survivor payments. Watch the full exchange HERE. Daines on how the Working Families Tax Cuts are a win for Americans: Daines: Well, it is Tax Day, and thanks to Republican leadership, President Trump’s leadership, and the work of this Committee in fact, we passed the largest tax cut in history and I’m proud of that. Said another way, we stopped the largest tax increase in American history, and I’m proud

Daines on CNBC’s Squawk Box: Millions of Americans are Benefitting on Tax Day from the Working Families Tax Cuts

April 15, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Steve Daines today joined CNBC’s Squawk Box to discuss how the Working Families Tax Cut is making life more affordable for Americans, as well as the latest on the Iran war and energy prices. Watch the full interview HERE. Daines on how the Working Families Tax Cut is increasing affordability: “Joe, we have got to do a better job of reminding the American people where we were just a year and a half ago under Joe Biden’s leadership. Wide-open southern border, flood of drugs and illegals coming across into America, violent criminals coming into our country. President

Daines Honors Montanans of the Month: 2026 Winter Paralympians Katie Verderber, Jack Berry, and Michael Kneeland

March 27, 2026

U.S. SENATE – U.S. Senator Steve Daines recognized Katie Verderber, Jack Berry, and Michael Kneeland as Montanans of the Month for representing the Treasure State in the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Paralympic Games. Through his “Montanan of the Month” initiative, each month Daines highlights a Montanan by submitting a statement of recognition in the recipient’s honor into the Congressional Record, the document that reflects the official proceedings of Congress. Daines welcomes anyone to nominate fellow Montanans for Daines’ “Montanan of the Month” program by calling his office at 202-224-2651 or filling out the submission form on his website HERE. The following is the tribute Daines submitted to

Daines Urges Colleagues to Confirm Katie Lane as Next Federal Judge for the District of Montana in Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing

March 25, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Steve Daines today spoke at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing urging his colleagues to support Katie Lane’s nomination to serve as the next Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana. Read his remarks as prepared for delivery below. Watch Daines’ remarks HERE. Daines’ remarks as prepared for delivery: Thank you, Chairman Grassley and Ranking Member Durbin, It is my honor to introduce Katie Lane and support her nomination to serve as the next Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana. Katie’s distinguished record of public service and experience in the

Daines on Fox News: Stop the Nonsense, End the DHS Shutdown

March 24, 2026

“Our Airports Look Like Walmart on Black Friday” WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Steve Daines today spoke with Martha McCallum on Fox News to discuss his meeting at the White House to end the DHS shutdown. Watch the full interview HERE. Daines on his meeting at the White House on ending the DHS shutdown: What happened yesterday at the White House was extraordinary. I got to give tremendous credit to President Trump and his team. The president saw what was going to happen right now at this moment in history a year ago when we put an extra $150 billion in the Homeland

Daines in Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee: We Need to Build Nuclear Energy in Montana

March 19, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Steve Daines today spoke with Theodore Garrish, Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy at the Department of Energy and Dr. John Wagner, Director at the Idaho National Lab, in a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing. They discussed how Montana can play a role in the Trump administration’s plans to reinvigorate America’s nuclear capacity. Watch Daines’ opening remarks HERE. Daines’ opening remarks: Chairman Risch, thank you. And with your foreign relations hat on here and your nuclear hat for a moment, just to pile on that earlier conversation on microreactors, where this might all head. And as we

Daines on Fox Business: “We Should Not Allow Democrats to Use a Shutdown to Put Pain on the American People”

March 18, 2026

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Steve Daines today spoke with Larry Kudlow on Fox Business to discuss Senator Markwayne Mullin’s hearing to be DHS Secretary and the effects of the DHS shutdown across the nation. Watch the full interview HERE. Daines on the DHS shutdown: It’s nuts, Larry. I call this “reindeer games” up here on Capitol Hill. This is now day 33. The Democrats decided to shut down DHS at a time when our nation needs those kind of resources on the front lines. Look what’s going on in TSA. I understand right now the Houston airport, three to four hour