{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.daines.senate.gov/2026/05/15/daines-reacts-to-trumps-historic-china-visit-a-great-moment-for-america/", "Daines Reacts to Trump\u2019s Historic China Visit: A Great Moment for America", "2026-05-15", "2026", "2026-05", "Republican", "Senate", "MT", "Steve Daines", "D000618", "www.daines.senate.gov", "daines", "https://www.daines.senate.gov/news/press-releases/", "scraper", "Joins Fox News, Fox Business, and Bloomberg\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senator Steve Daines joined Fox News, Fox Business, and Bloomberg TV to react to President Trump\u2019s historic trip to China as well as latest updates in Iran. Read highlights below.\n\nDaines on Fox and Friends\n\nI could not be prouder of President Trump. And what I just heard, I\u2019m watching this live feed that you\u2019re watching as well. I never thought I\u2019d live to see the day when President Xi Jinping said, Make America Great Again. This is a great moment. I was just in that great hall literally a week ago today. In fact, if you look at the seating with President Trump, the gentleman to his right is Premier Li Qiang. That\u2019s the number two leader in China. And then around [the table] you see Marco Rubio then Foreign Minister Wang Yi. I met with both the Premier and Wang Yi last week in Beijing with a bipartisan delegation of five U.S. senators. And it was just the fourth visit to China in six years by U.S. senators. It\u2019s so important that we not decouple. We need to engage. We need to, as was just described, promote strategic stability at this moment. It\u2019s the two largest economies in the world, the two largest militaries in the world. There\u2019s so much at stake. And I\u2019m so proud of President Trump, who now has been to China twice. President Biden never went to China. President Trump\u2019s been there twice. A credit to the president, his team, and those great leaders of America who are there working to get better access for U.S. businesses.\n\nWatch the full interview on Fox News HERE.\n\nDaines on Varney & Co.\n\n[Trump\u2019s] not decoupling. He\u2019s engaging. He\u2019s stabilizing this most important relationship. I think you\u2019re going to see a Boeing deal, a beef deal, a beans deal. We call it Boeing, beef and beans\u2026.another one of the things we\u2019re looking at is cooperating on reducing the fentanyl precursors that are shipped from China into Mexico, converted to fentanyl by cartels, and then poisoning and killing the American people. That\u2019s something I was working on a year ago in Beijing with the premier. And the good news, Stuart, is I\u2019ve been chatting with our drug enforcement folks, both on the ground working for the United States in China as well as here in the United States. We are making progress seeing the Chinese stopping some of these precursors that are killing Americans. So one of the things the Chinese could get out of this is reducing one of the tariffs we have in place resulting from these fentanyl precursors. So it\u2019s always give and take in these negotiations. But here\u2019s the good news, Stuart, is that President Trump is engaged. He\u2019s working diplomatically. He\u2019s saying the right things. He\u2019s engaging the right people up and down from the top to mid-level to the bottom so we can improve this relationship. The world\u2019s counting on us to strengthen this relationship between the United States and China.\n\nWatch the full interview on Fox Business HERE.\n\nDaines on Bloomberg TV\n\nThe day before I met with Wang Yi the Iranian foreign minister was sitting in the same chair I was sitting in a day later talking about the issues in Iran and the conflict. And the readout from that meeting was that the Chinese want to help stabilize the situation, to de-escalate it and get the Strait of Hormuz open, get the flow of oil moving forward, getting the price of oil down, getting the price of gasoline down. That\u2019ll serve not only the United States and China, but the global economy. So they were being helpful. And I\u2019m glad to see that President Trump and Xi Jinping continued that discussion. And from everything I\u2019m hearing, it was constructive. And we need China to help us. They do have a unique role to play as an interlocutor with the Iranian government. And we need them to be leading and helping us to stop the conflict in Iran and helping us bring this to an end.\n\nWatch the full interview on Bloomberg HERE.\n\n###", 1, "2026-05-16T06:05:00Z", "2026-05-16T06:06:37Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.daines.senate.gov/2026/05/15/daines-reacts-to-trumps-historic-china-visit-a-great-moment-for-america/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.1219391599297523, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}