U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today introduced the Public Health and Border Security Act, legislation that would prevent the Biden administration from lifting Title 42 border restrictions, which barred entry to at least 1 million attempted border crossings, without a coherent plan in place to stop the inevitable surge of migrants. Rescinding... Continue Reading
U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), members of the Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), today introduced the Medicaid Ensuring Necessary Telehealth is Available Long-term (MENTAL) Health for Kids and Underserved Act. This bipartisan legislation would direct... Continue Reading
Click here to watch the interview. U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today joined The Story with Martha MacCallum on Fox News to discuss the bipartisan disapproval of the Biden administration’s decision to end Title 42 policies at the southern border. Earlier today, Thune helped introducebipartisan legislation that would prevent the administration from lifting... Continue Reading
Click here to watch the video. U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, this week pressed U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra on the department’s one-size-fits-all federal mask mandates on Head Start programs. This HHS interim final rule (IFR) requires all staff and volunteers... Continue Reading
Click here to watch the video. U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today discussed the Biden administration’s reckless decision to end Title 42 border restrictions without a coherent plan in place to ensure a secure, orderly, and humane process at the border. Thune noted that once Title 42 is officially lifted, the flood of illegal immigration... Continue Reading
U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today led his colleagues in raising concerns about the Biden administration’s use of the financial regulatory system to advance its radical environmental agenda under the guise of mitigating banks’ and credit unions’ exposure to climate risks. The senators emphasize that the administration’s current efforts could... Continue Reading
Click here to watch the video. U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today discussed how President Biden’s incredibly out-of-touch budget would raise taxes, expand the federal government, and make inflation worse. Thune noted that the president’s budget fails to adequately address border security and immigration enforcement, and it would essentially leave defense spending flat, which... Continue Reading
U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), members of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, recently requested the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to update its greenhouse gas modeling for biofuels and adopt the Argonne National Lab’s Greenhouse Gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy Use in Transportation (GREET) model.... Continue Reading
Click here to watch the video. U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over tax and trade legislation, this week questioned U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai at a hearing on the administration’s trade agenda. Thune called out the Biden administration for its inexcusable delay in prioritizing a confirmable... Continue Reading
Click here to watch the interview. U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today joined The Story with Martha MacCallum on Fox News to discuss the Biden administration’s failure to secure our southern border. Thune noted that the Biden administration’s border crisis, which is the worst in history, will only get worse if the... Continue Reading
Click here to watch the video. U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today discussed his goals for the 2023 farm bill. Thune noted that he is fortunate to be a long-time member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, which gives him an important platform from which to address the needs of South Dakota agriculture producers. ... Continue Reading
U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), a longtime member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today applauded the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) announcement that it will provide Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees and Farm-Raised Fish Program (ELAP) assistance to producers for a portion of the costs they have incurred... Continue Reading
