Alaska, argued that the the SAVE America Act and MEGA Act would nationalize elections, something Republicans rejected under former President Joe Biden.

The Small Business Administration suspended about a quarter of the firms registered with the program, citing failure to turn over years’ worth of documents by a Jan. 19 deadline.

The two senators are leading a bipartisan push to protect the SBA's 8(a) program amid the Trump administration's ongoing effort to eliminate DEI initiatives.

Lisa Murkowski rebukes the Trump-backed SAVE Act, calling it federal overreach that undermines states’ control of elections.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who co-led the oversight hearing, said the program helps both the federal government and Indigenous communities in Alaska and across the country.

Murkowski, a prominent critic of the Trump administration, has long represented Alaska and is broadly recognized as one of the Senate Republicans most likely to break with her party on key votes.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski was the only Republican among four senators who took the trip to Greenland after President Donald Trump’s repeated threats to acquire the island.

Murkowski says the Homeland Security secretary should be held to account for her agency’s tactics in Minneapolis, where two citizens have been shot to death amid a massive immigration enforcement operation.

As Democrats blast a voter ID proposal touted by President Donald Trump, congressional Republicans are trying to smooth out their own internal disagreements over how far they should go — and whether to tighten federal control over elections in the first place

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski later echoed the sentiments shared by her colleague, Sen. Thom Tillis.