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If anyone thinks South Dakotans can afford to lose ag jobs, they haven’t heard the latest news from Yankton:

The Cimpl cattle harvest facility has stopped their operations in Yankton, a news release from American Foods Group says.

and..

AFG says they plan to provide continued pay and benefits to employees during the transition and say team members are on-site discussing relocation options. According to the company, the decision to “idle harvest operations” impacts more than 250 employees.

Read the entire story here at KELOland.

That’s a lot of jobs for Yankton to lose.

This last week, 11 legislators voted against the General Appropriations bill. There were some of the usual doltish morons who vote no, such as Phil Jensen, Aaron Aylward, Tina Mulally and Tony Randolph.  But they were joined by a disturbing number of new legislators – Baxter, Garcia, Hunt, Ismay, Jordan, Manhart and Reder all voted against the appropriations for the operation of State Government.  So did “California” Carley in the State Senate.

In fact, I notice that Representative “wedding DJ who lives in his mom’s basement” Dylan Jordan weighed in and explained why he voted against everything state government spends money on:

Obviously mom is buying his eggs, because he seems to have a disconnect from reality if the primary reason he voted against the budget was because things cost more than they did five years ago. Of course the budget is larger – Everything is more expensive than five years ago!

But getting into it, what exactly did these legislators actually vote NO on?  Here’s a tremendously small and fractional sampling of the things they voted against:

• They voted against our military & veterans – Ellsworth Air Force Base, funding the South Dakota National Guard, the Veteran’s hospital, and County Veteran Service officers
• They voted against supporting South Dakota housing.
• They voted against workforce education, including resources for (again) veterans, new and expecting moms, and disabled people who want to work
• They voted against healthcare facilities, repairing state buildings, paying for claims against the state, or covering employees through the state insurance pool
• They voted against having their own state e-mail account. Or their own laptops. Or their own iPads.
• The voted against libraries, public broadcasting, and having a state radio network that emergency and law enforcement can communicate on.
• They voted against auditing state government.
• They voted against collecting and distributing sales tax to cities.
• They voted against having video lottery, or managing gaming in Deadwood.
• They voted against resource conservation & forestry.
• They voted against the Animal Industry Board, the Dairy Association, the Wheat Commission, the Oilseeds council, the Board of Veterinary examiners, the Corn Utilization Council, and the South Dakota State Fair in Huron.
• They voted against tourism, the arts, wildlife development, all the state parks, and snowmobile trails.
• They voted against every penny that went from the state to tribal relations.
• They voted against mothers and babies in need of public assistance. They voted against anyone in behavioral health settings, those with addictions, they cast a NO vote to supporting the disabled and more.
• They voted against licensing any and all professions.
• They voted against all vo-tech schools and universities, as well as job service offices and services.
• They voted against schools, teachers and students. And libraries.
• These legislators voted against processing rape kits for crime victims, funding 911 calls, putting cops on the street, paying judges to keep order, and the opposed keeping bad guys in jail.
• They voted against regulating utilities.
• They voted against people to keep an eye on how the state spends money.
• They voted against paying state employees.. and well anything for government.

Literally, Rep’s Jensen, Aylward, Mulally, Randolph, Baxter, Garcia, Hunt, Ismay, Jordan, Manhart and Reder, and Senator John “By God I’m from California” Carley voted against every single thing that state government touches.   They can try to claim that it’s some sort of goofy protest vote. But it’s no different than the fools who drive to a protest and then proceed to block traffic. They’re accomplishing nothing, except possibly adding to people’s annoyance factor.

These guys allegedly ran for office to make the state better.. and then they vote against literally every person in South Dakota and every thing that state government touches.

Just don’t forget that next time we have an election.

I notice that the SDGOP has – weeks after state law said they were supposed to – finally updated their information with the Secretary of State.

SDGOP_2025Statement of Organization by Pat Powers on Scribd

Still nothing with the Federal Elections Commission. Which will be the expensive one if they decide to spank the party for not knowing what they’re doing.

Gov. Rhoden Signs Future Use Permit Legislation for West River Water Supply

(March 13, 2025) The Western Dakota Regional Water System (WDRWS) is thankful for the legislative approval of SJR 501, the Future Use Permit to access water from the Missouri River. Gov. Larry Rhoden. The next step in the process is final approval from South Dakota’s Water Management Board, the entity that issues Future Use Permits.

“Thank you to Governor Rhoden, the South Dakota Legislature, the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and the Water Management Board for prioritizing water for South Dakotans and planning for the future,” says Jake Fitzgerald, WDRWS President and Manager of the West River/Lyman Jones Rural Water System.

A Future Use Permit is a critical tool for ensuring that water resources are available for long-term water development in South Dakota. The permit allows entities such as WDRWS to secure water rights for future needs. The WDRWS Future Use Permit would allow up to 20,7765-acre-feet of water from the Missouri River to be utilized per year.

“This is an important first step toward ensuring West River has adequate drinking water for the future,” says Kristin Conzet, WDRWS Executive Director. “The Missouri River is an abundant resource that flows through South Dakota. It is important that we claim what is available to us, before we find ourselves without enough water.”

Future Use Permits greater than 10,000-acre-feet per year require legislative approval. The issuance of permits is carefully aligned with the state’s water management policies to balance future demands with current water supply. Prior to being considered by the legislature, the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources conducted a technical review of the WDRWS Future Use Permit application.

ABOUT WDRWS

Western Dakota Regional Water System (WDRWS) is a non-profit corporation, formed to address the need for water in western South Dakota. A 2019 study South Dakota Mines and a 2025 U.S. Geological Survey study show a current shortage of water under drought conditions. Projected population growth and the ongoing threat of drought illustrate the need for the WDRWS to bring water to West River. The WDRWS is an alliance of forward-thinking community, governmental and water system leaders who believe that the future of western South Dakota will be fueled by access to abundant and quality water. Large and small public water systems, associate members, and individuals make up the membership of the WDRWS. Learn more by visiting WDRWS.org.

I had a former legislator send me a note a week ago, noting that in conversations around the capitol in the past month they were privy to conversations where lobbyists, state department staff, and a few others that regularly testify noted that they are not planning to bring bills next session.  Why? As one person apparently stated “this is the most self-focused legislature I have ever witnessed. There is no regard or thought of what is for the betterment of all of SD.”

And that might be the theme of this year’s session:  No regards & no thought to the future of South Dakota.  I always tell candidates that voters need people to serve in government who are both inspirational and aspirational – those are the ones who stand out when looking at what we are through the lens of history.

As a state even when we don’t realize it we need leaders who have a vision to at the very least try to do big things. Whether it’s carving a mountain, finding a way to turn a hole in the ground into a world-class lab, dedicating a portion of land in every county to help fund schools, creating a funding mechanism to support job development, wiring the schools, the list goes on.

We are here today thanks to the foresight of many who had the vision that our state could be bigger and better than we are today.  Unfortunately, in 2025, that wasn’t us.  In fact, this year’s session might be best thought of as a steaming pile of scat.

Why do I have this attitude after observing this past legislative session? Well, here are a few examples of what I just witnessed:

 

Kicking schools when they’re down and failing to live up to prior commitments to education

During session this year, legislators approved a 1.25% increase in State Aid to Education. The problem with that?  As noted by KELOland:

State law requires public schools receive a funding increase equal to the consumer price index (CPI-W) or 3%, whichever is lower. This year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics computed an average of 3.25% for the CPI-W.

If we have a state law that says what the minimum for state aid to education is, and we fail to meet it, that’s not good. That’s failing to honor the commitments we previously set in state law.

But, not only did they do that, but a number of legislators collectively said “Hold my beer, while we kick education again.” And they brought a string of “voucher” proposals to strip schools of taxpayer dollars to divert the funds to private religious schools or in some cases, homeschool programs with absolutely NO accountability.  Want to “unschool” your kid, and sit them in front of a TV? They could literally get funding to buy the TV, because one proposal said funds could be requested for technology.

Schools are literally being starved out, with teacher salaries once again among the lowest in the nation (49^thin the nation), and there were competing proposals to take money from public education on complaints they don’t do a good enough job?  Just think about that. Legislators are complaining about education while under-funding it, and starving out teachers paying them almost the least in the country.

There was more legislation to punch down on school funding – let’s not forget Phil Jensen trying to zero-fund the Huron School District – but honoring our commitment to schools and the voucher bills were the big ones.

In any case, this was among the worst legislative sessions for kicking education around.

 

While trying to starve public schools to benefit church schools, too many zealots were trying to make public schools into church schools.

In the few moments that legislators weren’t trying to strip taxpayer dollars from public schools to send them to private religious academies, they were trying to turn public schools into religious academies.

One measure that immediately comes to mind was Senator “California” Carley’s bill to prominently place posters of the ten commandments in every high school classroom, and to include it in curriculum. While I’m not sure how much kids in swimming or welding classes were going to get out of it, thankfully more sensible heads prevailed in the House or Representatives after it passed the Senate. Unfortunately, it narrowly missed being sent to the governor, only failing on a vote of 31-37.

Another Bill, proposed by Rep. Novstrup of Aberdeen, sought to directly install school chaplains into public schools. Although, it did provide the caveat that chaplains must not be sex offenders or convicted of trafficking in narcotics. That bill did not make it out of the House.

This selective piety of some Republican legislators was nothing new, but what should give constituents pause is the degree to which the 100^th legislature gave approval to such proposals, despite the establishment clause of South Dakota Constitution and the same prohibitions against establishing religion in public institutions as contained in the First Amendment to the US Constitution.

Two documents that legislators actually swear an oath to support. Thankfully, a slight majority still recognize that fact.

 

Sending librarians to jail, and legislators threatening them with bodily harm

This effort might have been one of the most offensive bills to ever be proposed in our State’s Legislature. House Bill 1239, Representative Bethany Soye’s missive as to why as an attorney employed by a bank she should not be allowed to legislate criminal law. Her bill proposed to criminalize librarians checking out books to minors that some parents may consider obscene, sensationalizing the anti-literature missives of some parental groups who have failed in efforts to get some books removed from the library.

As noted by the South Dakota Library Association, Soye’s bill proposed to apply the same class of punishment applied to hiring a prostitute and committing simple assault, with a maximum penalty of one year in jail and a $2,000 fine.

This bill showed surprising support among legislators making it through the House of Representatives, and only stalling in some of the last moments on the Senate floor where some legislators rightfully believed threatening librarians with jail time to be too much of a stretch in the culture wars.

In an even more troubling development, some legislators advocated for violence against librarians as part of the debate, with Rep. Travis Ismay of Newell declaring that “If a librarian rented this out to my son or daughter, you’d be lucky if you got hauled out of there in handcuffs.”  In the Senate, the rhetoric wasn’t any more elevated, with Sen. Taffy Howard of Rapid City declaring that if someone had given objectionable material to her children, she’d “want them strung up from the nearest tree.“

There’s no way that this debate could be considered part of a “good session” in anyone’s book.

 

South Dakota is NOT open for business. We’re nailing the door shut and sending them North

With a very loud voice this legislature, South Dakota literally declared that if you follow the rules that have been set down, and invest hundreds of millions of dollars in adding jobs and making South Dakota a world leader in value added agriculture.. Well, we might just change the rules mid-stream, and kick you out of the state.  That would be the message from House Bill 1052, which was a bill brought to expressly prohibit the exercise of eminent domain for a pipeline that carries carbon oxide.

The bill was introduced as a rebuke against Summit Carbon Solutions who was mid-process in building a 9 billion dollar pipeline which would have crossed South Dakota, and picked up carbon dioxide emissions from nearly twenty South Dakota ethanol plants which would be captured instead of being passed into the air as they are now in order to improve their carbon score and make the fuel additive more attractive for purchase in the world marketplace in comparison to competing ethanol plants who are already providing a reduced carbon product.

Also looking to attach to the pipeline was the 2 billion dollar GEVO bio-jet fuel plant proposed outside of Lake Preston community, a small town that was slowly dying but was turned-around and buoyed by plans for the development of the plant which was considered “the largest economic development project in South Dakota history.”

Fueled by anti-green energy hype and issues that had nothing to do with the science of the project, the pipeline played a factor in 2024 Republican primary elections among the few who bothered to vote, swinging the number of people who supported ag development out of office or underground, forgetting the project they had previously supported.  House Bill 1052 sailed through both houses, and was signed by Governor Rhoden on March 6^th.

Investment Monitor, a business analysis website pointed out in 2022 that in a number of measures, South Dakota could really be doing better when it comes to business.  We are among some of the lowest states for foreign direct investments, 46^th in economic activity, 48^th in salaries, etc.

I have often noted that we do have many things going for us. But it’s not like we can afford to slack off on trying to bring business and development to South Dakota. Yet what have we managed to accomplish in this year’s 3 month session?

The CEO and Founder of ethanol company Gevo is considering bringing an ethanol and jet fuel plant to North Dakota after issues with carbon dioxide pipelines in South Dakota.

And..

Gruber is concerned about going ahead with plans with the Lake Preston plant because of some people’s disdain for carbon dioxide pipelines in South Dakota and new laws potentially being made in South Dakota’s Legislature on them. He’s considering building an ethanol plant in North Dakota instead, but Gevo would have to get a permit from the U.S. Department of Energy to do so.

“North Dakota is set up for it, the wells work, it’s well-proven, it’s environmentally friendly. It’s a business-friendly environment here,” Gruber said.

Read that here.

North Dakota being described by the CEO of our state’s largest economic development project in history noting “It’s a business-friendly environment here” as he discusses options to move his project to the other Dakota? Ouch.

Our wonderful 100^th legislature has managed to take the largest economic development (and value-added ag development) project in state history and have it’s investors looking to go to our neighbor to the North.

Thanks, Pierre. What’s your next trick? Sending Mt. Rushmore to Nebraska?

 

When I observe on social media that some legislators try to slather themselves with praise over what the legislature did this year, it’s like someone dumping strawberry preserves over burnt toast to mask the bitterness.  I can’t help but roll my eyes and take the view that they just spent three months trying to shortchange public schools and create a theocracy. That they tried to throw librarians in jail.  And, they actually may have accomplished sending our jobs and ag development to North Dakota.

Good job? Absolutely Not.

This might be the worst legislative session I’ve experienced in 35 years of politics.

And the voters of the state need to pay close attention.

Men Don’t Belong in Women’s Sports
By Sen. John Thune 

More than 50 years ago, Congress passed landmark legislation to create equal spaces and opportunities in education for women. Title IX is particularly notable for its effect on women’s sports. By requiring that recipients of federal funding create equal athletic opportunities for women and girls, Title IX paved the way for the women’s and girls’ athletic programs that exist today at K-12 schools, colleges, and universities around the country.

But today the gains made possible by Title IX are under attack. We’ve seen biological men identifying as women take spots on teams, medals, and opportunities from women. It’s happening in a range of sports. A female runner acknowledged that first place was not within reach because she knew there would be no winning a race against a biological male who finished a full minute and 22 seconds ahead of the second-place, female finisher. A male pole vaulter won the high school women’s competition with a vault that exceeded the second-place vaulter by six inches. A high school girls’ basketball team had nearly half of its season’s points scored by a male. And that’s just a sampling of the stories.

The United Nations reported last year, “The replacement of the female sports category with a mixed-sex category has resulted in an increasing number of female athletes losing opportunities, including medals, when competing against males.” The U.N. estimated that more than 600 female athletes had lost almost 900 medals to biological men in 29 sports.

The problems here are obvious. First of all, there is the physical danger that can be posed by men participating in women’s and girls’ sports. But there’s also fairness, equality, and opportunity. Title IX was created to give women opportunities that had been denied them. But allowing biological men to compete against women means robbing female athletes of not just medals and trophies, but also scholarships, spots on a team, and opportunities to compete in front of college scouts.

This isn’t fair. Both of my daughters are former athletes, and I know how much competing in sports matters to young women and how hard they work to win. My dad was a Division I athlete who came home to Murdo and coached girls’ basketball and track. It would have been unthinkable to him that biological men could compete against the young women he coached.

I’m proud that President Trump took action to protect the original meaning of Title IX and ensure that federal funding would not go to schools that allow men to compete as women. This executive order is an important step, but executive orders can be rescinded. So the U.S. Senate recently attempted to take the next step and make this the law. Unfortunately, every single Democrat in the Senate voted to prevent us from even debating the bill.

I had a professor who used to say that some things are just intuitively obvious. This is one of those things. Generations of American women have benefited from Title IX’s promise of fair competition and equal opportunity in sports. Keeping biological men out of women’s sports is about keeping that promise alive for the next generation of female athletes.

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Shutdowns are Stupid
By Rep. Dusty Johnson
March 14, 2025

BIG Update

This week, I re-introduced my Traveler’s Gun Rights Act to protect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding RV-ers, active-duty military, military spouses, and others who rely on P.O. Boxes as their mailing address. Currently, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) does not recognize alternative addresses – like a P.O. Box – for firearms paperwork, although these types of addresses are allowable for a driver’s license.

You shouldn’t be prevented from practicing your Second Amendment rights simply because you rely on a P.O. Box. I’ll continue to lead efforts like this to ensure the right to bear arms is accessible for all law-abiding Americans.

BIG Idea

Chinese-made fentanyl has been flooding the U.S. for years. In fact, China is the number one producer of this lethal drug that makes its way across our borders.

I’ve joined my colleagues in the House and Senate to introduce legislation to combat this deadly epidemic. We are leading the Joint Task Force to Counter Illicit Synthetic Narcotics Act to stop the flow of synthetic narcotics across our borders. The bill would bring federal agencies together to disrupt trafficking networks and enforce sanctions. This includes addressing the role of the People’s Republic of China in the opioid crisis.

The Chinese Communist Party is the leading force behind America’s fentanyl crisis, and while securing the borders have made a positive impact, Congress and federal agencies must take decisive action and end the flow of drugs into our country.

BIG News

On Tuesday, I voted to pass the House Republicans’ Continuing Resolution (CR) to keep the government open through the end of the fiscal year. I know a CR is not the ideal way to fund the government, but it is a necessary path forward to keep our borders secure, ensure troops are paid, provide support for needy families, and keep government services running.

The CR also reduces federal spending compared to the prior year’s levels. America’s $37 trillion of debt will not disappear overnight, but incremental progress is important if we ever want to meaningfully tackle our debt.

This CR allows House Republicans to focus on advancing President Trump’s reconciliation goals and root out waste, fraud, and abuse to ensure your tax dollars are being used in the most effective manner.

A Historic Session – and a Path Forward
By: Gov. Larry Rhoden
March 14, 2025  

We just wrapped up the 2025 legislative session – our 100^th in South Dakota’s history. It’s been quite a ride. Not only did we celebrate this history of our state in this Capitol, but we also navigated a historic succession of power. I stepped into the role of governor mid-session, and that’s never happened in South Dakota history. I’m proud to say we didn’t just keep the ship afloat – we made real progress to keep South Dakota strong, safe, and free.

This session, we got things done. The first bill I signed banned sanctuary cities in South Dakota. That’s a clear statement that we support President Trump and Secretary Noem in their work to keep our communities safe from cartels and human traffickers. We also passed pro-life and pro-Second Amendment bills that reflect who we are as a state.

The House and Senate passed SB 216, my bill to address the rising burden of property taxes on homeowners. I signed it in the Capitol Rotunda to highlight the importance of this issue for our people. That’s a win for homeowners, but there’s more work to do.

We delivered South Dakota’s 136th consecutive balanced budget. That took some tough calls, including over $70 million in cuts to executive branch agencies, all proposed by the Governor’s Office. I’ve heard plenty of folks in Pierre say we need to trim spending to ease property taxes.   I’ve wrestled with property taxes and spending for years in the legislature; so I figured it’s time to break it down for you plain and simple.

Here’s the truth: the state collects $0 in property taxes – we don’t collect a penny. I told that to the leader of a South Dakota trade organization the other day, and he said – and I’m just the messenger here – “bullsh!t.” But it’s fact!

So if the state doesn’t collect property taxes, where does the money go? 56% funds our schools. Counties get 27%, cities 13%, and townships and special districts split the rest.

Then how do we cut property taxes? We’ve got three options: cut spending, shift the burden, or find new revenue. Cutting spending means slashing school budgets or county roads and public safety – there’s not the will for that. Shifting it – like we’ve seen unintentionally with rising home values – won’t fly either.

I’m taking a deeper look at option three: find new revenue to provide direct property tax relief. And when we do so, we’ll make it optional for counties. No mandates – each county will decide for themselves, either through their county commission or by a vote of the people.

This won’t be some top-down fix. It will be real tax relief for property owners, tailored to local needs. I will share this proposal with the legislature’s Property Tax Relief Task Force prior to their first meeting, and they will be able to chew on this over the summer. I’m open to more ideas, more imagination, more creative problem-solving – we need to focus on solutions, not excuses. Together, we’ll keep South Dakota the best place to live, work, and raise a family.

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340B Reform is Needed to Prevent Future Waste
By Troy Redler

For the last few weeks, the headlines have been filled with reports of outlandish government spending thanks to the efforts of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). As DOGE continues to find the worst cases of waste, fraud, and abuse across the government, it is only a matter of time before they turn their attention to the 340B program.

The 340B program was created to achieve a noble goal: to help vulnerable patients access prescription medications. This was supposed to work by allowing hospitals operating in underserved communities to purchase prescription drugs at a discounted rate. Those hospitals could then provide medicine to needy patients at a lower cost.

Unfortunately, the system was designed with a fatal flaw—there is no accountability to ensure patients actually see the savings. This has resulted in many hospitals using the 340B savings to boost their profits rather than charge patients lower prices.

This is a particularly big issue for rural states like South Dakota. Many South Dakotans live in medically underserved areas or struggle to afford their medications. Reform is desperately needed to ensure the program is serving our most vulnerable residents and prevent more resources from being wasted.

The 340B program has exploded in popularity in recent years. The number of covered entities, which is a technical term for hospitals or other healthcare providers who utilize the 340B program, has grown to over 12,700 by 2020, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

The growth in the number of contract pharmacies that provide the medication paints an even starker picture. In 2010, approximately 1,800 contract pharmacy locations nationwide participated in 340B. By 2022, that number had grown to nearly 32,000.

Much of this growth has been fraudulent. Despite being a program explicitly designed to benefit vulnerable patients, only 35% of participating hospitals and clinics provide service to underserved areas. Moreover, an academic analysis found that the dramatic growth of contract pharmacies was not correlated with poverty rates or areas of medical underservice.

The GAO has found numerous instances of noncompliance across the 340B program, including ineligible facilities qualifying for discounted medications and distributing 340B drugs to ineligible patients. However, the most wasteful abuse that has been uncovered is the discovery of “duplicate discounts.” This occurs when medications that are already covered by another government benefit, such as a Medicaid rebate, are also sold under a 340b price.

While it is bad enough that taxpayer money is being wasted, what makes the situation even more concerning is that the program is failing to help the very patients it was designed to serve. Instead of lowering costs for patients, hospitals are often charging them the full sticker price for prescription medications and using the savings to invest in unrelated projects.

Defenders of the status quo sometimes argue that hospitals use their 340B savings to invest in charity care, so the program is actually achieving its stated goal. But the evidence does not support this claim. In 2022, for example, participating hospitals made over $44 billion of the 340B program but spent just under $19 billion on charity care.

Ultimately, serious changes to the program will need to be passed by Congress. Given South Dakota’s large population of underserved patients, Senate Majority Leader John Thune should make passing 340B reform a top priority.

In the short term, a good first step would be for DOGE to draw attention to the problem, as they have done for other instances of governmental abuse. After all, sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Another way DOGE can help is to advocate for a “follow the money” approach to the program. Some drugmakers have proposed moving the 340B program to a rebate model, where the manufacturers would provide the savings once a hospital verifies that the 340B drugs receiving a discount were actually purchased and dispensed by a properly eligible 340B provider.  While this system would not fix all of 340B’s woes overnight, it would be a first step towards providing the transparency necessary to ensure that at-risk patients have access to affordable medications—and that’s what matters most.

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Troy Redler is the operator of the family-owned, Redler’s LTC Pharmacy specializing in pharmaceutical care for patients in long term care and senior living communities.

Thune Statement on Air Strikes in Yemen

 SIOUX FALLS, S.D.  — U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today issued the following statement:

“Today’s air strikes in Yemen sent a clear and unambiguous message to our adversaries around the world: attacking the United States and our allies will not be tolerated,” said Thune. “I applaud President Trump for taking this long overdue decisive action the American people deserve and expect to keep American servicemembers, maritime shipping, and our allies safe from Houthi terrorists. Bad actors around the globe must understand there are consequences for their actions, and we now have a president who’s willing to hold them accountable.” 

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