Press Releases
Hawley Applauds $100 Million Milestone for Missouri Radiation Survivors
WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) announced that he received an update from the U.S. Department of Justice that $101,950,000 in compensation has been delivered directly to Missourians harmed by exposure to Manhattan Project nuclear waste. This milestone comes after Senator Hawley’s legislation, expanding the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) to include Missourians, was signed into law by President Trump in 2025. RECA provides compensation to Americans who developed radiation-linked cancers due to the federal nuclear arms program during the Second World War- and Cold War-eras. Over $320 million has been delivered in total to survivors across the country under Senator Hawley’s RECA law. Thousands more survivors and their families...
Hawley, Warren Reintroduce Bipartisan Legislation to Limit PBMs, Put Patients First
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) reintroduced the Patients Before Monopolies Act to prohibit Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) from owning pharmacies and driving up the costs of prescription drugs. Insurance companies and PBMs have taken advantage of the system, putting profits before patients. The reintroduction comes after Senator Hawley and Senator Warren recently introduced the Break Up Big Medicine Act to address rampant consolidation in the healthcare industry that drives up prices, squashes competition, and hurts working people. “Americans are paying more and more for healthcare while seeing less in return. PBMs are at the center of a broken system that rewards middlemen while driving up...
Whistleblower Testifies That Biden Admin Violated Hawley Law to Declassify Lab Leak Info
WASHINGTON -- Today, a CIA whistleblower testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee (HSGAC) about the intelligence community’s handling of information related to the origins of COVID-19. In January 2023, Senator Hawley’s legislation to declassify "any and all” information related to COVID’s origins—including information that would substantiate the lab leak hypothesis—passed Congress unanimously and was signed into law. Today’s whistleblower testified that the Biden administration intentionally ignored that law and refused to provide Congress and the American people with the truth about COVID. The whistleblower, who worked in the intelligence community during COVID, told the Committee that the Biden Administration amassed thousands of pages of...
Hawley Statement on Resignation of FDA Commissioner Makary
WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) released the following statement on the resignation of Marty Makary as FDA Commissioner.
Hawley Introduces Legislation to Suspend the Gas Tax
WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced legislation to suspend the gas tax. The legislation comes after President Trump announced support for pausing the 18 cent federal gas tax for a period of time. "President Trump has proposed to suspend the federal gas tax and he’s exactly right," said Senator Hawley. "American workers and families deserve immediate relief and this legislation will do just that.” While some of the biggest corporations in the world are seeing record profits, the national average for regular gasoline now surpasses $4.50 per gallon. The national average for diesel fuel is nearly $5.70 per gallon. In the State of Missouri, the average price of regular gasoline today sits at over $4 per gallon—a 47% increase from one year ago—and the...
Hawley Announces Legislation to Suspend the Gas Tax
Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) announced he is introducing legislation to suspend the gas tax. The legislation comes after President Trump announced support for pausing the 18 cent federal gas tax for a period of time. Senator Hawley has previously expressed support for making the gas tax holiday permanent.
Senator Hawley’s GUARD Act to Protect Kids from AI Chatbots Passes Committee Unanimously
WASHINGTON -- Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously passed Senator Hawley's GUARD Act, a bill to protect children from abusive sexual content, inducement to commit self-harm, and emotional companions through AI chatbots. This bipartisan legislation imposes criminal penalties on companies whose AI chatbots engage in sexually explicit conduct with minors or solicit minors to commit self-harm or violence. It also bans AI companions for minors and mandates AI chatbots to disclose their non-human and non-professional status. Parents of children who lost their lives or committed self-harm at the direction of AI chatbots watched as the Committee advanced the bill. The GUARD Act would: Ban AI companies from providing AI companions that simulate interpersonal...
Hawley Calls for Congressional Hearing Following Third Assassination Attempt on President Trump
WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo) sent a letter to Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Rand Paul, urging him to hold an oversight hearing on the third apparent assassination attempt on President Trump. The letter comes after the crazed gunman was charged with attempted assassination. Senator Hawley wrote, "On the evening of April 25, a crazed gunman charged past security at the Washington Hilton and attempted to attack attendees of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, including President Trump and members of his cabinet. Thankfully, the threat was swiftly neutralized by the Secret Service; one brave officer was injured in the response. But this latest incident—the third apparent attempt on President...
Senator Hawley Calls on House to Extend Ban on Taxpayer-Funded Transgender Treatments for Minors
Federal Ban on Medicaid Payments to Planned Parenthood and Similar Providers Expires on July 4, 2026 WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo) sent a letter to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, urging him to extend the ban on any federal funding for trans-treatment and abortion providers in the upcoming Budget Resolution. Senator Hawley’s amendment to extend the ban was narrowly rejected by the Senate this week, and he is now calling on the House to act. Senator Hawley wrote, "Last night, the Senate rejected my efforts to ban taxpayer funding for transgender treatments for minor children. The ball is now in your court. If the House fails to act immediately as part of reconciliation, billions of Federal dollars will go to Planned Parenthood and other...
Hawley Files Budget Amendment to Extend Ban on Planned Parenthood Funding
WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) filed an amendment to the Senate Budget Resolution to extend the prohibition on federal payments to abortion providers. In the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Congress enacted a one-year ban on federal payments under the Medicaid program to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers. That ban expires on July 4, 2026. Senator Hawley plans to force a vote on his amendment during the Senate’s upcoming consideration of the Budget Resolution. Senator Hawley has consistently called for a termination of all federal funding to abortion providers. At the start of this Congress, Senator Hawley introduced theEnd Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Providers Act, which would strip Planned Parenthood and...