Press Release: Merkley to Burgum: Our Public Lands Are Not For Sale – May 21, 2025
Press Release: NEWS: Schatz: Trump Administration Illegally Blocking Funding Owed To Native Communities – May 14, 2025
Press Release: Padilla, Schatz, Wyden Lead Push Warning Trump Admin of Harmful Impacts of SAVE Act, Anti-Voter Executive Order in Native Communities – May 13, 2025
Press Release: Merkley, Schatz, Murkowski Sound the Alarm Over Staffing Shortages at the Indian Health Service – May 6, 2025
Press Release: 100 Days In, Trump is Blocking At Least $430 Billion Dollars in Funding Owed to American People – April 29, 2025
Statement from Senator Schatz: Schatz Statement On Trump Administration’s Disrespect For Public Health Officials, Indian Health Service – April 9, 2025
Statement from Senator Schatz: Trump’s Plan To Dismantle Education Department Violates Federal Trust Responsibilities, Threatens Native Students – March 20, 2025
Letter from Rep. Tom Cole, Native American Caucus Co-Chair, to OMB Director Vought re: the impact of the Administration’s current and future actions on Tribal Nations – February 24, 2025
Opinion by Interior Subcommittee Ranking Member Chellie Pingree: The president’s policies are yet another betrayal of tribal communities – February 22, 2025
Letter from Senator Jeffrey Merkley and Representative Chellie Pingree, Ranking Members of their respective Appropriations Subcommittees on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies to Interior Secretary Burgum re: Condemning Indian Affairs Hiring Freeze, Firings as Violation of Tribal Sovereignty – February 20, 2025
Letter from group of Senators including Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i), vice chairman of the Indian Affairs Committee, to Homeland Security Secretary Noem re: demanding that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) end wrongful searches and interrogations of Tribal members and uphold the United States’ trust and treaty responsibility with Tribal Nations and their citizens – February 18, 2025
Letter from Reps. Stansbury, Fernandez, and Davids to Interior Secretary Burgum RE: requesting consultation on the “Expanding Educational Freedom and Opportunity for Families” EO – February 11, 2025
Letter from Senator Jeffrey Merkley and Representative Chellie Pingree, Ranking Members of their respective Appropriations Subcommittees on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies to the Acting HHS Secretary re: concern that certain recent executive actions will undercut the federal healthcare workforce – February 10, 2025
Letter from Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Chair Murkowski to Acting OMB Director Re: Reaffirming the Status of Tribes as Political Entities and the Legal Obligation of the United States to carry out the Federal Trust Responsibility in the Implementation of Presidential Executive Orders – February 5, 2025