Brian Schatz: “Can you reassure me that this thing is going to get stood up quickly?”

It’s the warming planet.

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.

Thousands of brave service members from Hawai‘i put their lives on the line to serve our country. This federal funding will help us improve and maintain Veterans Cemetery No. 2 in Hilo so we can continue to honor their legacies.

“A shortage of multilingual teachers means students learning English often don’t have the support they need. By increasing loan forgiveness for these teachers, our bill will help English learners get the high-quality education they…