Where Trump's Cabinet nominees stand in Senate confirmation process
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel testify before Senate committees on Capitol Hill on Thursday as urgency ...
How the White House convinced skeptical Republicans to back RFK Jr., Gabbard and Hegseth
Sen. Todd Young didn’t back Donald Trump in 2024. But that didn’t stop Young from calling the president this past weekend as ...
The 24-Hour Blitz That Flipped One Senator’s Vote from No to Yes on Hegseth
Sen. Thom Tillis told colleagues he was a ‘no’ the night before the defense secretary’s confirmation, setting off party pressure. His turnaround left witnesses who had come forward as collateral ...
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Trump’s Tariffs Wars Are About to Cost a Very Important Republican
Senate Majority Leader John Thune ... of this committee believes, as the vast majority of members of our intelligence agencies believe, that Edward Snowden was a traitor to the United States ...
Leader Thune backs Senate GOP bid to speed past House on Trump budget plan
S.D., has come out in support of a Senate GOP effort to move out in front of their House colleagues on the crucial budget ...
Senate to vote on confirmation of OMB director as Democrats protest
The Senate is expected to vote Thursday on the confirmation of Russ Vought to lead the Office of Management and Budget, after ...
Thune on Trump tariffs: ‘We’ll see how long’ they last
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters Monday he’s taking a wait-and-see approach to President Trump’s ...
Donald Trump and the incredible shrinking Congress
The framers of the Constitution imagined Congress as the preeminent branch of government. But many GOP lawmakers on Capitol ...
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Thune says Republicans nearing list of rules to kill
Senate Majority Leader John Thune declared Tuesday that Republicans were eyeing up to 15 late-stage Biden regulations they ...
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How Trump’s trade war could put John Thune in a very uncomfortable spot
No congressional leader is more at risk of getting caught in the crossfire of Donald Trump’s coming trade wars than Senate Majority Leader John Thune. Trump said Thursday he’s ready to slap ...
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John Thune is caught in the crossfire of Trump’s trade war
No congressional leader is more at risk of getting caught in the crossfire of Donald Trump’s coming trade wars than Senate Majority Leader John Thune. Trump said Thursday he’s ready to slap ...
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US Senate panel to vote on RFK Jr.'s health secretary nomination
Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, the committee announced Sunday. In contentious confirmation hearings before the Senate Finance Committee last week, Senate ...