Daines, Tester praise president's call to fund LWCF

Staff and wire report

Montana’s U.S. senators both praised President Donald Trump’s call to fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund

Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., said he and Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., secured Trump’s call for legislation to fully fund the conservation fund, while Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., praised what he called Trump’s reversing course from a budget that proposed cutting the fund by 97 percent.

Daines, Gardner and Tester were scheduled to hold a press conference in Washington at 11:30 a.m. Mountain Time about securing Trump’s support for LWCF funding and to address the...