Last month, I requested nearly $37 million for fifteen local projects in the Fiscal Year 2026 spending bill. I secured more than $19.3 million for infrastructure projects in Northwest Washington in the Fiscal Year 2024 spending package, which was signed into law in March 2024. It is critical to keep this work going.

Earlier this month, I took a tour of Lumen Field along with representatives from the Seattle World Cup 26 Committee. Just over a year from now, Seattle will be hosting 6 World Cup matches, and I wanted to know what we are doing to prepare.

President Trump and his trade war are a mess. The increases in tariffs and the use of national emergency powers: Trump is sowing chaos. There was no method to the madness — he was putting tariffs on uninhabited islands as well as a couple of islands only inhabited by penguins. He announces tariffs and rolls them back with no plan, only creating uncertainty for hardworking families across America. This is the spaghetti on the wall approach that fuels the Republican Rip-Off.