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U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito urged Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the cabinet secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to consider keeping National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health whole in his federal budget proposal. Kennedy presented his budget proposal Tuesday morning for fiscal year 2026 beginning Oct. 1 to the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Capito, R-W.Va., chairs the... Read More

Senator Shelley Moore Capito led a hearing to examine financial priorities for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under Robert F. Kennedy Jr., with several lines of questioning relating to West Virginia issues. The opening remarks by Capito addressed working with Congress as Kennedy leads a structural reorganization, the importance of ongoing Alzheimer’s research, funding levels for grants aimed at assuaging the opioid crisis and the mission of the National Institute of... Read More

U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito is continuing discussions on President Donald Trump’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget request. Tuesday was Capito’s first hearing in her new role as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. During the hearing, Capito addressed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., praising the changes he has made to the department so far. Capito also applauded RFK Jr.’s decision to return NIOSH staff... Read More

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va. won’t be on the ballot until next year, but she has already secured the president’s endorsement for re-election.  President Donald Trump issued a statement on his Truth Social media platform Friday praising West Virginia’s senior senator and saying she has his “Complete and Total Endorsement for Re-Election — SHE WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN!” “Senator Shelley Moore is doing a tremendous job representing the Wonderful People of West Virginia, a State I love and WON... Read More

Ahead of her likely bid for reelection in 2026, President Donald Trump has already endorsed Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV).  In a post on Truth Social on Friday, President Donald Trump said that Capito “is doing a tremendous job representing the Wonderful People of West Virginia, a State I love and WON BIG in 2016, 2020, and 2024!” Capito, who has been a Republican representing West Virginia in the U.S. Senate since 2015, won her Senate elections by large margins in 2014 and 2020. She was not... Read More

U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., is applauding the return of nearly 100 workers to a federal office in West Virginia that supports the state’s coal industry. Workers at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health office in Morgantown were impacted by a reduction in force order issued earlier this spring by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The office provides critical health safety programs for coal miners, including black lung screening... Read More

A significant part of the workforce at the National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health will return to work permanently, U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito said Tuesday.  Capito, R-W.Va., made the announcement on X, formerly Twitter, that the employees would be called back. “As Chairman of the (Labor-HHS) Subcommittee, I was proud to advocate for the critical work that’s done at NIOSH in Morgantown, W.Va. My understanding from (Health & Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.)... Read More

About half of the employees who were laid off from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) facility in Morgantown are expected to have their jobs restored, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) said in a statement Tuesday.  Capito, who has been in communication with U.S. Department of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. since the initial layoffs in April, said that “over 100 Morgantown employees will be returning to the job permanently.” Since the first round of layoffs... Read More

Some of the employees at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health facility in Morgantown who had been laid off will be “returning to the job permanently,” according to Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va.  Capito, in a social media post Tuesday, said she had just spoken to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about the status of employees at the Morgantown facility.  “My understanding from @SecKennedy is that over 100 Morgantown employees will be... Read More

US Senator Shelley Moore Capito announced on social media Tuesday that more than 100 National Institute For Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) employees will be returning to work. “As Chairman of the Labor-H @AppropsGOP Subcommittee, I was proud to advocate for the critical work that’s done at NIOSH in Morgantown, WV. My understanding from @SecKennedy is that over 100 Morgantown employees will be returning to the job permanently. The health and safety of our WV workers, including our miners,... Read More

U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va, is backing a continuation of the 2017 Trump tax cuts. Capito, who spoke with West Virginia reporters about the ongoing budget reconciliation bill during her weekly media briefing, also addressed potential cuts to Medicaid and how that could impact residents of West Virginia. A draft version of the budget reconciliation package was released by House Republicans Sunday. House Speaker Mike Johnson has set a Memorial Day deadline to pass the budget bill,... Read More

U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito gave the commencement address to graduates at West Virginia Wesleyan College’s 134th commencement on Saturday. Held at the Wesley Chapel, the college’s commencement saw nearly 200 graduates walk, representing 39 bachelor’s degree programs, four master’s programs and the Doctor of Nursing Practice.  “I encourage you to build a life here in West Virginia,” Capito said in her address. “No matter where you come from, no matter where your personal history is, you are... Read More

A little more than a year ago West Virginia officials celebrated getting a jump toward improving broadband connectivity after the state became one of the first three approved to unlock millions of federal dollars. Now state officials are expressing frustration over federal delays. “It’s a digital inequity that we have in our state,” Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said in a briefing with reporters, saying the $1.2 billion allocated for West Virginia broadband “should have been out the... Read More

U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Kelly Workman, director of West Virginia’s Office of Broadband, are right to keep up the pressure on federal officials over the pace of their review of grant funding for high-speed broadband. “As we have discussed, I am concerned that West Virginia may be told to move back from the 1-yard line to the 40-yard line after the review concludes,” Capito wrote in a letter to U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. “I urge you to expedite not... Read More

U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito said Wednesday that West Virginia has waited long enough for connecting unserved and underserved homes and businesses to high-speed broadband, calling on the federal government to speed up its review of grant funding. In a May 7 letter to U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Capito asked Lutnick to expedite the department’s review of the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. “As we have discussed, I am concerned that West... Read More

U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito said Thursday she is not opposed to reforms for federal entitlement programs, but she was not interested in seeing West Virginians receive cuts to the services they rely on. Capito, R-W.Va., spoke with reporters Thursday afternoon during a phone briefing from Capitol Hill on a multitude of topics, including the budget reconciliation package being worked on by Congress, the situation at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Morgantown... Read More

Funding for Head Start has been restored in President Donald Trump’s budget proposal, U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said Thursday. An initial version of the president’s proposal released in April included significant cuts to the 60-year-old early childhood education program, which raised concern among stakeholders over the fate of the more than $90 million in federal funds that support West Virginia Head Start programs annually. “We have a lot of vital services through Head Start in... Read More

U.S Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) was on the Senate floor Thursday, where she questioned FBI Director Kash Patel about the Trump administration’s fiscal year 2026 budget request. Capito addressed the work that is currently being done at the Criminal Justice Center in Clarksburg. Patel traveled to the center in April and said he was impressed by the work being done there, particularly when it comes to gun background checks and national background checks. With the current budget, Patel says... Read More

U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito said Wednesday that West Virginia has waited long enough for connecting unserved and underserved homes and businesses to high-speed broadband, calling on the federal government to speed up its review of grant funding. In a May 7 letter to U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Capito asked Lutnick to expedite the department’s review of the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. “As we have discussed, I am concerned that West... Read More

U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) joined Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Katie Britt (R-Ala.) on their bipartisan Access to Breast Cancer Diagnosis (ABCD) Act. The legislation seeks to make breast cancer diagnostic tests more affordable and accessible by eliminating copays and other out-of-pocket expenses for these tests, which are often necessary to receive a formal diagnosis.  “We know that early detection and screening for breast cancer can saves lives. That’s why it’s... Read More