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January 29, 2026
I did not come to Washington to watch unelected bureaucracy rewrite congressional intent in practice. For months, I elevated these cases and pressed for a course correction. I met with senior Army and Corps leadership and kept pushing because the people who live on this lake deserve to be treated with consistency and respect, not subjected to shifting interpretations and district-level stonewalling.

January 18, 2026

Missouri has always been a state that builds. From factories to airplanes, manufacturing has propelled our economy and created good-paying jobs. Today, the next chapter of growth looks different. It’s not only about what we produce in our factories but also the digital infrastructure that powers our industries and national security: data centers.


December 16, 2025

Just days from now, former President Joe Biden’s temporary COVID-19-era tax credits, which provide fully subsidized healthcare plans to more than 9 million Obamacare enrollees, are set to expire. For Republicans, allowing these subsidies to expire will be a victory in itself, saving taxpayers an estimated $448 billion, even as the 


September 26, 2025

Led by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Democrats are poised to shut down the federal government in the coming days, refusing to pass a seven-week stopgap funding bill to the Senate unless Republicans agree to a $1.4 trillion wish list. 


September 26, 2025

“When people stop talking, really bad stuff starts.”


August 12, 2025

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy remains one of the most defining moments in our nation’s history. Recent disclosures by the Central Intelligence Agency related to that tragic event raise disturbing questions that demand serious, bipartisan scrutiny—not more delay, not more obfuscation, and certainly not more secrecy. The American people deserve the truth.  


July 29, 2025

During a press conference last week in the Oval Office, a reporter asked President Trump how it’s possible that we know more about a couple from a Coldplay concert just hours after their extramarital affair was exposed on social media than we do about Thomas Crooks more than a year after he came wit


July 29, 2025

 


July 29, 2025

 

After years of unchecked spending and the relentless expansion of a bloated administrative state that demands ever-increasing amounts of power and resources, the American taxpayer has been relegated to an afterthought in Washington’s priorities.


July 29, 2025

 

For more than a century, one trend has defined American politics: the relentless expansion of federal power. The Founders built a limited framework of law and order to protect liberty and promote a flourishing society. That framework has morphed into a sprawling leviathan that reaches into nearly every aspect of American life. Each crisis, often of the government’s own making, brings the same answer: more bureaucracy, more spending, more control.