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Cantwell Defends America’s Extreme Weather & Natural Disaster Preparedness Programs From Sweeping Cuts

Budget passed 82-15 by the Senate today largely preserves funding for National Weather Service & climate research, blocking Trump’s proposed $1.7B NOAA gut; Congress’ budget also preserves resources to fight and prevent wildfires, saving programs […]

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Cantwell Responds To Trump’s Rudimentary Health Care Proposal: “We Need More Than A One-Page Plan” As ACA Open Enrollment Window Closes and Senate Majority Blocks Efforts to Address Rising Costs

Today, Trump released his long-awaited plan to lower health care costs that amounted to a 5-minute video & a fact sheet; Cantwell mocked unserious proposal on Senate floor: “There are a lot of details that […]

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Cantwell Applauds Funding for Critical Buoy and Technology Program that Trump Proposed to Eliminate

New budget preserves program that provides vital data for Seattle weather forecasters, Coast Guard search and rescue, and coastal communities WASHINGTON, D.C. – America’s ocean monitoring network – which includes high-tech buoys, gliders, and other data which […]

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U.S. Science Leadership Survives Existential Threat From Trump Budget as Cantwell Rallies Colleagues to Reject Gutting NASA, NSF, & NIST

Cantwell’s September report, “The Destruction of NASA’s Mission,” warned lawmakers that Trump’s proposed cuts would doom America to defeat in the international space race WASHINGTON, D.C. – America’s leading science agencies have survived an existential threat […]

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Wyden, Pallone Demand the Trump Administration Restore Key Measure of Childhood Health and Wellbeing

Washington, D.C. – Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and House Energy & Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., demanded the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) restore the key child immunization measures that it dropped […]