Press Releases
Hawley Provision to Fight Child Trafficking Passes Senate
WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley's (R-Mo.) provision to combat child exploitation passed the Senate. The provision, as part of the broader reconciliation bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security, will provide DHS with $108.5 million to hire 200 new child exploitation investigators and analysts. DHS currently employs only 7 full-time specialists to identify these victims. “The Senate just passed my legislation with Tim Tebow to rescue thousands of children trapped in sex trafficking. That’s two hundred new law enforcement officers to find and rescue kids trafficked by predators and a new initiative to coordinate local, state, and federal enforcement. This is the biggest surge against child trafficking ever by the federal government. Let’s...
New Op-Ed: Hawley Urges Congress to Pass His Legislation to Rescue Trafficked Kids
Hawley's Legislation is Included in GOP Reconciliation Bill Being Voted on Today, Awaits Final Passage WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) penned an op-ed in The Daily Wire about the need to pass his legislation to combat child trafficking. The Department of Homeland Security funding bill, which the Senate is expected to vote on today, includes Senator Hawley’s provision that would allocate $108.5 million for hiring 200 child exploitation investigators and forensic analysts. Currently, DHS has only seven forensic analysts for these cases. Senator Hawley’s effort follows key advocacy from former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow, who testified to Senator Hawley’s subcommittee in March about the desperate need for more resources and tools at the federal...
Hawley Keynotes American Compass New World Gala: ‘Artificial Intelligence Will Not Choose Moral Liberty’
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) delivered the keynote address at the American Compass New World Gala, presenting on the foundation of our country and its moral covenant. He contrasted our founding with the dangers of artificial intelligence that threaten to unravel the very fabric of this nation. https://youtu.be/mGeiN9BClV8 Senator Hawley said, "For we are confronting now new questions of technology and science that will test our commitment to the great moral covenant that binds us together as a nation. I tell you tonight that the decisions we must soon make about the most powerful technology of our lifetimes—the technology of artificial intelligence—are among the most difficult we have yet faced as a people. These decisions will go far beyond questions of economics...
Hawley Leads Delegation Urging Approval for New Federal Relief for Recent Missouri Tornadoes
WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo) led the Missouri congressional delegation in sending a letter to President Trump in support of Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe’s request for a major federal disaster declaration. This comes after the devastating tornadoes and storms that struck Missouri from April 23 through April 28, 2026. Senator Hawley wrote, "We write to support Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe’s May 22 request for a major federal disaster declaration, pursuant to the Stafford Act, following devastating tornadoes, straight-line winds, severe storms, large hail, and flooding that struck Missouri from April 23 through April 28, 2026. If approved, this declaration would promptly authorize federal aid for affected residents and compensate local governments for...
Hawley’s Legislation Combating Child Exploitation Passes Out of Committee, Included in Reconciliation
The Renewed Hope Act now heads to Senate floor following committee vote WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley's (R-Mo.) provision to crack down on child exploitation advanced out of the Senate Homeland Security Committee as a part of the GOP reconciliation bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Senator Hawley successfully included his language to allocate $108.5 million for hiring 200 child exploitation investigators and forensic analysts. Currently, DHS has only seven forensic analysts for these cases. The effort follows key advocacy from former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow, who testified to Senator Hawley’s subcommittee in March about the desperate need for more resources and tools at the federal level. The GOP reconciliation bill is expected to be taken up by the...
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...