National Security

By U.S. Senator Josh Hawley | April 21, 2023 | The American Conservative The following text reflects remarks as prepared for delivery. Thank you to the Heritage Foundation, which helped inspire my interest in conservative policy twenty-three years ago. I was an intern here in the summer of 2000. What a time to be alive. [...] And the truth is: Nobody has done more in the last fifty years to fuel conservative ideas than the Heritage Foundation. And at this time of challenge—in this time for...

Today U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and JD Vance (R-Ohio) introduced the Special Inspector General for Ukraine Assistance Act to establish a Special Inspector General to oversee the military and non-military assistance to Ukraine. The United States has appropriated $113 billion in aid to Ukraine – more than the contributions made by all European NATO allies combined. "The United States has been sending endless money to Ukraine despite a lack of oversight and without...

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) delivered remarks at the Heritage Foundation in a speech entitled, “China and Ukraine: A Time for Truth.” The discussion focused on developing a defense policy that prioritizes our biggest threat, China; challenges to the consensus on Ukraine; and safeguards for Americans at home. Remarks as prepared can be found below. China and Ukraine: A Time for Truth Three years ago, in October of 2019, I went to visit Hong Kong.  It wasn’t a standard,...

U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas blasting the Department’s decision to cover up the Disinformation Governance Board’s activities by redacting large swaths of records produced to Congress in response to the Senators’ oversight requests. The Senators wrote, “Based on our review of this material, it appears that many of the redactions are applied to pre-decisional and...

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) delivered remarks on the Senate Floor following the Senate's passage of his legislation to ban federal employees from using TikTok on government devices.  "Last night, the Senate took the important step of unanimously on a bipartisan basis passing legislation to ban TikTok on all government devices. [...] Never has the security threat to the American people from the Chinese Communist Party been more grave, and never has the...

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS)’s Acting Assistant Secretary for Border and Immigration Policy, Blas Nuñez-Neto, demanding answers on the agency’s failure to prepare for the surge in illegal immigration across our southern border prior to Title 42 coming to an end. Officials are now bracing for 14,000 migrant encounters per day. In May, during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC)...

Tonight U.S. Senator Josh Hawley’s (R-Mo.) bill to ban TikTok on government devices unanimously passed the Senate for the second time. Senator Hawley’s bill would follow up on steps already taken by the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and TSA to ban the app on federal government devices due to security concerns. “TikTok is a Trojan Horse for the Chinese Communist Party. It’s a major security risk to the United States, and until...

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter urging Secretary of State Antony Blinken to prioritize arming Taiwan over delivering weapons to Ukraine.  "Taiwan is more important for U.S. national interests than Ukraine,” wrote Senator Hawley. “Seizing Taiwan is Beijing’s next step toward dominating the Indo-Pacific region. If Beijing succeeds, it would have dire ramifications for Americans’ national security, as well as our economic security and freedom of...

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...

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...