Brian Schatz: “There's no justification for a violation of Federal law being so inexpensive as to not be a disincentive.”

This new federal funding will give local farmers more tools to fights threats like drought and invasive pests and help boost production of Hawai‘i’s world-class coffee and chocolate.

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.

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.