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WASHINGTON – Yesterday, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led the charge from Congress to push President Trump to not sell out American national security during his summit with Chinese President Xi in Beijing later this week.Ranking Member Shaheen and Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) authored a...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and John Curtis (R-UT) published an op-ed in The Economist warning that rising aggression from the People’s Republic of China toward Taiwan and across the Indo-Pacific requires clear, consistent and bipartisan American leadership. The...

WASHINGTON – Last week, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Thom Tillis (R-NC), Chris Coons (D-DE), John Curtis (R-UT), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Andy Kim (D-NJ) and Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) sent a letter urging President Trump to formally notify $14 billion in U.S. arms...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and John Curtis (R-UT) released a statement welcoming the approval by Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan (LY) of a supplementary defense budget that will strengthen Taiwan’s deterrence capabilities against growing People’s Republic of China...

WASHINGTON – Yesterday, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio raising deep concern over the Department’s plans to close Camp As Sayliyah (CAS) in Qatar and relocate more than 1,100 Afghan allies to third countries rather than allow them to...

WASHINGTON – Yesterday, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and U.S. Representative Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio raising concern over the incomplete release of Fiscal Year (FY) 2025...

Bipartisan letter asks Sec. Rubio to use $600 million appropriated for vaccination effort WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Susan Collins (R-ME), Chair of the Appropriations Committee, Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Appropriations Committee, Mitch McConnell...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement on reports that the President plans to reduce U.S. troops levels in Europe: "It is extremely concerning that the President is intent on altering U.S. force posture in Europe based on his feelings about...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the below statement after President Trump declared hostilities with Iran 'terminated':“President Trump declaring the war with Iran ‘terminated’ doesn’t reflect the reality that tens of thousands of U.S. service members in the...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Chris Coons (D-DE) and Pete Ricketts (R-NE) led a resolution affirming bipartisan concern over the growing threats China poses to America’s national security and economic prosperity at a pivotal moment for U.S.-Chinese relations. The...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement marking sixty days since President Trump initiated military conflict with Iran, which under the War Powers Act marks a clear legal threshold that absent congressional authorization, the President must...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Ted Budd (R-NC) reintroduced their bipartisan resolution in support of the United States dollar maintaining its status as the world’s reserve currency. Additionally, the resolution affirms the need to keep the U.S. dollar at the...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Ted Budd (R-NC) introduced a bipartisan resolution expressing concern about the increasing influence of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in Latin America and the Caribbean and calling for increased American economic, security...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered opening remarks at a full committee hearing, “Sabotage in the Baltic Sea, Implications for European Security and Lessons for the Indo-Pacific.” In her remarks, Ranking Member Shaheen criticized the failure of the Trump...

WASHINGTON – Yesterday, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio raising alarm over the end of funding for the Joint Emergency Operation (JEOP) in June 2026, which is funded by the Department of State and was previously funded by USAID. Senator...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) introduced the “Protecting Human Rights and Public Health in Foreign Assistance Act,” bicameral legislation to nullify the Trump Administration’s sweeping expansion of the global gag rule, also known as the...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Jim Risch (R-ID), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, alongside Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and their colleagues in the Senate introduced a bipartisan resolution welcoming His Majesty King Charles III...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, welcomed the visit of His Royal Highness King Charles III and Queen Camilla to the United States.“I warmly welcome King Charles III and Queen Camilla to the United States for their first royal visit and reaffirm our commitment to the...

WASHINGTON – Last week, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen, Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Thom Tillis (R-NC), sent letters to Meta and Alphabet urging them to devote sufficient resources to preventing Russian disinformation ahead of Armenia’s June 2026 parliamentary elections. “Independent experts assess that Russia is...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate Democratic Leader, and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the below statement condemning the Trump Administration for extending the...