National Security

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) released the following statement after the House overwhelmingly passed legislation that would ban TikTok on all American devices, if the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) linked ByteDance refuses to sell the app.

NOW is the time to act on TikTok and stop China spying. The Senate should take up this bill immediately https://t.co/PstR0rY9xi

— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) March 13, 2024

Senator Hawley has been a leader against CCP-linked TikTok. In December 2022,...

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R Mo.) introduced the Declaring Our Energy Independence From China Act to counter the Biden Administration's energy surrender to America's greatest adversary. This new legislation would raise tariffs on China's green-energy goods to prioritize and protect U.S. energy independence.

“President Biden’s climate agenda undermines U.S. energy independence and will make us more reliant on China,” said Senator Hawley. “We can’t afford energy policies that enrich our...

By U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) | March 5, 2024 | Fox News

Last year, President Biden announced sweeping new mandates on the American auto industry to force a transition to electric vehicles. Under these radical, Green New Deal rules, as many as two-thirds of all cars and trucks sold in the U.S. market by 2032 would have to be EVs. 

These rules were so terrible for consumers – and met with such fierce resistance by American workers – that his administration is already second-guessing them. 

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This morning Senator Hawley voted against the multibillion-dollar foreign aid package put forth by Senate leadership, criticizing the legislation for fueling the U.S. Defense Industrial Complex while neglecting to compensate nuclear-radiation victims at home, within America's own borders.

Last night Senator Hawley spoke on the Senate floor where he blasted Senate leadership for prioritizing unchecked military aid for Ukraine's war and the country's private sector over funding for American...

Tonight U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) delivered remarks on the Senate floor ahead of an expected votes on additional aid to Ukraine. Senator Hawley blasted Senate Leadership for shoveling billions of dollars to foreign wars while ignoring Americans who have been poisoned by the federal government through its atomic program.

"We have enough money to make hundreds of millions of dollars of our taxpayer funds available to the private sector in Ukraine [...] We've got money without end [...] I...

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Matt Lucke, owner of Magnitude 7 Metals in Marston, Missouri. Senator Hawley urged Mr. Lucke to re-open the plant and warned him of his potential violation of the WARN Act that deprives his workers of compensation they are owed under federal law.

Last week, Senator Hawley urged President Biden to use the Defense Production Act to prevent the shutdown of Magnitude 7 Metals to preserve good-paying union jobs and safeguard national security.

Today in a Senate Judiciary hearing, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) challenged TikTok CEO Shou Chew on his app's monitoring of Americans and its harvesting of their personal data, describing the platform as an espionage arm of the Chinese Communist Party.

"Every single one of those Americans are in danger from the fact that [TikTok] tracks their keystrokes, [TikTok] tracks their app usage, [TikTok] tracks their location data,"said Senator Hawley. "And we know that all of that information can...

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to President Joe Biden, urging him to use the Defense Production Act to prevent the shutdown of Magnitude 7 Metals—an aluminum manufacturer in Marston, Mo., that accounts for nearly 30 percent of the nation’s primary aluminum production. Senator Hawley warned that the closure of Magnitude 7 Metals would deliver a devastating blow to working families in Missouri and undermine U.S. national security.

"Magnitude 7 Metals’ 'curtailment' of its...

Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas calling out his failure to secure the southern border. A new report reveals that in fiscal year 2023 alone, 860,000 illegal immigrants crossed into the United States without encountering a border official.

"These 'gotaways' outnumber the combined populations of Kansas City and St. Louis, the two largest cities in Missouri," wrote Senator Hawley. "At the very least, you owe...

U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) sent a letter to Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury and Chair of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), urging her to block the sale of U.S. Steel to Japan-based Nippon Steel Corporation (NSC). NSC announced plans to acquire U.S. Steel on Monday, a deal that raises national security concerns and threatens to weaken America's industrial base.

"The transaction was not entered into with...