President Donald Trump said Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) should cancel the Senate’s summer break and long weekends in order to confirm Trump’s nominees, which include some controversial picks, more quickly in a Truth Social post Saturday. “Hopefully the very talented John Thune, fresh off our many victories over …
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Senate Republicans have passed President Donald Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” a sprawling legislative package that is expected to kick millions off their health insurance, codify big tax cuts for the wealthy, give a massive funding boost to the administration’s mass deportation efforts, and screw over the nation’s poor with …
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President Donald Trump’s tariff regime goes into effect at midnight on Tuesday, and some Republican lawmakers can barely contain how much they hate it. As markets crater, and tensions escalate between the United States and its most important trade partners, elected Republicans must be realizing that they will be among …
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Donald Trump has nominated a roster of highly controversial, and in some cases scandal-plagued, MAGA chaos agents to serve in his Cabinet — and is planning to force them through the U.S. Senate, a chamber in which the incoming president will enjoy a new conservative majority. However, when it comes …
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Donald Trump has followed up his election win earlier this month by tapping a series of devout loyalists, conspiracy theorists, and zealots to occupy the highest ranks of the federal government. Some of them —like Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — are so thinly qualified for …
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After almost two decades leading the Republican Senate Caucus, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell has finally been replaced. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), who is currently the Senate’s Republican whip, will be the new Senate Majority Leader. Republican senators voted to replace McConnell in a secret ballot on Wednesday. Thune will assume …
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Republicans are selecting their next Senate majority leader on Wednesday, to take power from the increasingly decrepit Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. Will the next GOP leader be a thorn in Trump’s side, as the old-school corporate conservative McConnell occasionally was, or a MAGA fixer, greasing the skids to ram controversial …
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Following the killing of three children and three staff members at a Tennessee elementary school, President Joe Biden renewed calls for gun control legislation, including a plea to Congress to pass a proposed assault weapons ban. When questioned by reporters if they would support increasing regulations on firearms in the …
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According to a forthcoming book by two New York Times reporters, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) in February 2021 told a group of three Republican senators that he would become an independent and caucus with the GOP if Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) were their leader in the Senate. Asked about the …
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Americans want a $15-per-hour minimum wage. A Reuters/Ipsos poll released Thursday found 59 recent of the nation supports the long-debated wage hike Democrats are trying to work into the coronavirus spending bill. Only 34 percent oppose it. But if we know one thing about Republicans, it’s that they’re not going …
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