Brian Schatz: “These are the kinds of things that define our relationship with these Pacific Island leaders, whether we respect them.”

Congress passed a law to invest in saving lives, protecting the American people, and advancing our interests abroad; it did not hand Trump a checkbook to spend on whatever he pleases while blocking funding for everything else.

It’s the warming planet.

We’re all paying the price for our inaction.

Hurricanes and floods and tornadoes and fires don’t pick and choose their targets based on how the last election went.