Weekly Columns and Op-Eds
In the fight against hunger, the United States has been the global leader in delivering much needed aid for decades. For nearly 70 years the Food for Peace program within the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has successfully fed over four billion people in more than 150 countries with American agriculture products.
As fentanyl continues to ravage communities across the United States, the Trump Administration has taken measures to ensure Canada, Mexico, and China are doing their due diligence to address this crisis.
As a proven reliable and affordable source of baseload energy, hydroelectric dams supply the Pacific Northwest with nearly 90 percent of the region’s renewable energy. Here in Central Washington, these carbon-free sources are the key to our demand-driven grid and a variety of other benefits like transportation, barging, and irrigation.
Over 80 million acres of forests in the United States are overgrown and undermanaged, primarily due to burdensome federal regulations. These conditions are the kindling to the wildfires that ravage our lands every year, a challenge Central Washington is certainly no stranger to.
The last four years of inaction at the southern border resulted in over 10 million illegal immigrant encounters nationwide and a record-high number of violent, illegal criminals encountered throughout the United States.
This week marks the beginning of the 119th Congress and just the third time in the last 70 years that Republicans have controlled both chambers of Congress and the White House.
