Steve Daines

Congress narrowly approved President Donald Trump’s request to claw back $1 billion from public broadcasters. State public media leaders say the rescission will stretch station finances thin.

President Donald Trump is nominating a Billings attorney and state legislator to a federal bench in Montana.

The Trump administration is holding back more than $26 million that Congress already approved for Montana schools. The frozen funding represents more than 10% of what the federal government typically sends to Montana schools each year, according to an analysis from the Learning Policy Institute.

Montana’s U.S. Senators backed President Donald Trump’s colossal tax and spending bill in a razor-thin vote July 1. The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” has passed the Senate.

America’s weekend airstrikes against three Iranian nuclear facilities earned unanimous praise from Montana’s Republican congressional delegation.

Montana’s Republican congressional delegation unanimously supports Israel’s military strikes against Iran.

The "bathroom" law remains stalled in the courts. Lawmakers appear poised to pass the state budget. Sen. Daines gets a presidential endorsement. And female senators call out sexism in the chamber.

The state Senate is mulling an ethics report about one of its own. Lawmakers hope to pass bills to boost teacher pay. The state school superintendent supports eliminating the federal Department of Education. And Montana's congressional delegation has no desire to hold public town halls.

Millions of dollars in grants to help rural business and agricultural producers in Montana remain tied up in federal funding freezes. The grant recipients are asking the state’s congressional delegation to ensure their contracts get paid.

Last week, President Trump released an order to freeze all kinds of federal rules proposed in the days before the Administration changed, including the latest grizzly bear delisting rule. The Trump Administration is reviewing what Biden tried to do with grizzlies, and deciding what’s next.