Steve Daines: “I support that. But even our collaboratives are being litigated, so I think we need additional protections.”

I ask unanimous consent that Lahra Walker, an Energy and Natural Resources fellow with my staff, be granted floor privileges until December 31, 2025. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

What the president made clear is [he] does not want to see any cuts to beneficiaries. But to go after, he repeated over again, the waste, fraud and abuse, the waste, fraud and abuse.

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