Lisa Murkowski: “I certainly realize that it was very helpful for me to go to Alaska because you have told me that Alaska is different.”

It doesn’t appear to me that it puts us in that much of a different position than prior to the beginning of the war.

I am also keenly aware that the Department’s nearly $2-billion dollar slush fund—which likely would have rewarded January 6 protesters—is only off the table because this nomination is pending and the Senate has leverage.

There is nothing more American than telling our story truthfully.

Last week, I raised this issue with Secretary McMahon, and I’m pleased she agreed to expedite the obligation of the funds for the Alaska Native Education Program grants that Congress appropriated earlier this year.