Lisa Murkowski: “I see no reason that the Forest Service or BLM should be dealing with pandemics or other civil defense crisis as a core…”

I join Alaskans in condolences as we learn of the plane crash in Cape Newenham today.

Alaska is a cornerstone of American defense; investments like this from the Coast Guard are critical as we work to improve infrastructure on bases across the state to maintain our national security.

Where there’s opportunities to put certain guardrails in our spending bills — there are tools, there are mechanisms — we have to be diligent to it.

I would expect this from terrorists and dictators, but not here in America.