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Four years ago today, as preparations were underway for the inauguration of then President-elect Joe Biden, National Guard Master Sergeant DeRicko Gaither sent an email warning of a possible “Insider Threat” in the ranks: a guardsman named Pete Hegseth, who, Gaither wrote, had a tattoo of a refrain favored by …

An apparently unified Senate Democratic caucus is demanding that government funding legislation not include “poison pill policy riders” targeting reproductive freedoms and LGBTQ rights. In a letter to Appropriations Chair Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Vice Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine), 45 Democratic senators wrote that “partisan, discriminatory, and harmful policy riders …

In the highly tumultuous closing days of Donald Trump’s first term in office, BuzzFeed News received an angry letter from his outgoing administration. The subpoena, issued on December 1, 2020, was delivered as Trump was preoccupied with efforts to overturn the democratic order and nullify the results of the presidential …

Pete Hegseth’s nomination as Secretary of Defense is hanging on by a thread as hardline MAGA Republican senators wage a public pressure campaign against their colleagues to secure the embattled former Fox News host’s confirmation. On Friday morning, President-elect Donald Trump stepped into the fray himself. “Pete Hegseth is doing …

Close your eyes and make a list of the most important issues in the 2024 election. Maybe you thought of the cost of living, abortion, immigration, democracy, climate change, gun violence, the war in Gaza, the Supreme Court. If you’re like the vast majority of voters, the word you probably …

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 …

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 …

Donald Trump has won the presidency, and Republicans have taken control of the Senate in the culmination of an intense — and expensive battle — for dominance in Congress. The GOP picked up four seats this cycle, flipping the chamber and netting a decisive 53 seat majority. A Republican majority …

Populist independent candidate Dan Osborn has lost his bid for U.S. Senate in Nebraska to two-term Republican incumbent Sen. Deb Fischer. The result helps solidify the GOP’s control of the chamber, which it secured for the first time in four years on Tuesday. Osborn is a union leader, Navy veteran, …

Ted Cruz has won another six years in the Senate. The conservative incumbent, who was seeking reelection for this third term in Congress, held off Democratic Rep. Colin Allred, whose insurgent campaign shook the nerves of Senate Republicans who couldn’t afford to lose a seat in deep-red Texas. The contest …