🚨St. Louis is receiving $68M to combat violent crime and support local law enforcement. We do not have to accept violent crime in our neighborhoods. I'm proud to have worked with @AGToddBlanche to bring home this investment & restore law and order.

Americans shouldn’t have to deal with aging airports that have fallen behind the times or suffer through frustrating flight delays. It’s time American air travel gets a facelift. I’m working with @SecDuffy to get it done.

There are a few rare moments where all of world history turns on a single heartbeat. October 12, 1492 was one of them. The setting was grim. Morale had collapsed on Christopher Columbus' ships. They were lost, and they knew it. In fact, they hadn't even glimpsed land for over a month — far longer than any other European expedition that had ever ventured into the Atlantic before. Food and water was running low. Two days earlier, there had been a near-mutiny. According to one account, the crew had sworn to throw Columbus overboard "into the sea" if he did not agree to turn the ships around and head home in a few days. Columbus had bought himself some time by promising the crew they would turn back if they didn't make land within two or three days. But that promise was made on October 10. It had been two days. The clock was running out. Then, in the first hours of October 12 — around 2 A.M., we're told — a lookout aboard the Pinta began to shout: "Tierra! Tierra!" ("Land! Land"!) It's hard to even imagine the rush of emotion that washed over the men of the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria in that split second. They had done it, against all odds. There, on the horizon, was a new world. They were saved. What they didn't know, at the time, was that they were setting in motion a series of events that would come to define the next four centuries — and eventually, the whole arc of world history itself. In his famous biography of Columbus, the historian Samuel Eliot Morison noted that 1492 was an "exceedingly gloomy" year in Western history. It was a time of stagnation, listlessness and retreat. "Christian civilization appeared to be shrinking in area and dividing into hostile units as its sphere contracted." At the same time, the forces of Islam were on the march. In the space of a few short years, everything changed. "Faith in God revives and the human spirit is renewed," Morison writes. "The change is complete and astounding. A new envisagement of the world has begun, and men are no longer sighing after the imaginary golden age that lay in the distant past, but speculating as to the golden age that might possibly lie in the oncoming future." Within decades, nearly every European power launched expeditions inspired or made possible by Columbus' voyage. Within a century, Western ships had crossed every ocean, charted nearly every coastline, and planted their civilization's flag on every inhabited continent. Columbus' voyage linked two previously foreign worlds: The Old World and the New. In doing so, it unleashed an explosion of dynamism, exploration, and innovation that would come to define our civilization. What was born in the ensuing decades was much more than just a territorial expansion. Faith, science, philosophy, art — every plane of human achievement and creation surged into new horizons as the West found itself at the helm of world history. The United States would not exist as a formal, independent nation-state for centuries. But 1492 was the beginning of everything that makes us who we are. All that America would come to be was born on the decks of the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria. It was as critical a moment as any other in our people's history. America is a pioneer nation — restless, dynamic, forged on the wild frontier. Christopher Columbus was the first expression of the American spirit — the same spirit that would go on to build a glittering civilization in the wilderness of a new world. That's why we celebrate Columbus Day.

The greatest country in the history of the world deserves to be able to travel safely and have modern airports. For too long we've accepted the idea that old technology and delays are just a part of air travel. No longer. We must reject decline.

Dept. of Transportation @SecDuffy is here in St. Louis with me to highlight the desperate need to modernize American air travel. Between long delays and aging terminals, flying has become a burden for Americans. My Modern Skies Act will bring air travel into the 21st Century.

Air travel shouldn't feel like a gamble. My Modern Skies Act invests $30 billion to rebuild aging terminals, modernize our air traffic control system, and upgrade air traffic control towers across the country Let's make flying great again!

I-70 is a crucial transportation artery that connects Missourians from all over the state. I worked with @SecDuffy to secure $42 million to improve safety & efficiency on I-70 near Lambert Airport that will allow it to service the area for years to come.

Fraud is theft. And the American people are done paying the bill. Great to have @FBIDirectorKash and @AGToddBlanche in KC today as we go after the fraudsters taking advantage of Americans. Accountability is coming.

Corn & soybeans are two of Missouri’s top ag exports, and the farmers who grow them work hard day in and day out. Great to visit with Missouri producers at the Fair this week.

Today we celebrated an historic investment in Kansas City! $160M is on its way to @UMKC to develop critical materials & support advanced manufacturing. Missouri is positioned to lead the country in research & innovation that will boost our economy & national security.

Huge news. It’s hard to overstate how impactful breaking the ABA cartel would be for American legal culture. The ABA is a bastion of progressive dogma and indoctrination. It wields its racket to impose that dogma onto the legal culture. This is the way. Keep going!

BIG day for Kansas City and the nation. As we work to reshore critical supply chains, this $160M award for @UMKC will make the Show Me State a leader in critical material research & innovation.

Congratulations to @JesusOseteDOJ! Jesus is going to make an excellent judge. I saw his legal acumen and courage first hand when he worked for me in the Missouri AG’s office. Jesus marks the seventh Missouri judge nominated by President Trump this term. Missouri leads the way!