Author: David Sivak

Senate Republicans have a new messenger-in-chief as Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) embarks on a media blitz to sell President Donald Trump‘s agenda. Thune has been scheduling interviews on a near-daily basis as the Senate prepares to vote on Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” He started the week with an appearance on Shannon Bream’s Fox News…

The Senate will vote on the United States’s involvement in Israeli operations against Iran, with a new Democratic-led resolution attempting to bar President Donald Trump from joining the conflict without the approval of Congress. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) introduced a resolution Monday that requires congressional debate and a vote before the U.S. takes any offensive measures against…

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) is drawing rare Democratic praise — and some GOP grumbling, too — over a new rule that has senators sprinting to the Senate floor to cast their votes. Senators now have 30 minutes to make their way to the chamber, or else GOP leaders will close the vote and…

Senate Republicans released dueling proposals to fund border security in President Donald Trump‘s “big, beautiful bill,” underscoring rare divisions over an issue that broadly unites the party. In legislative text circulated by the Senate Budget Committee on Thursday night, Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) earmarked tens of billions for border priorities, including wall construction and interior…

Sen. Rand Paul‘s (R-KY) feuding with the Trump administration has sparked GOP divisions over $150 billion in border money earmarked in President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” Paul, a fiscal hawk who chairs the Homeland Security Committee, threatened to slash that funding in half this week ahead of the release of legislative text, a move…

Team Thune has won bragging rights in a fitness challenge so close that less than 10 minutes of exercise initially separated its next closest competitor, the office of Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL). Staffers for Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) logged the highest average points, at 11,913, using a heartbeat monitor that tracked physical activity…

The cryptocurrency industry is preparing to spend big next year to protect the gains it made in November, when it deployed tens of millions in campaign cash to cement a favorable regulatory environment in Washington. President Donald Trump not only won a second term in 2024, promising to make the United States the “crypto capital…

EXCLUSIVE – Advancing American Freedom, the advocacy group founded by former Vice President Mike Pence, is urging lawmakers to ignore the Congressional Budget Office‘s deficit projections as Republicans advance their tax agenda on Capitol Hill. In a memo circulated to congressional offices on Friday, AAF called the nonpartisan budget forecaster “wildly inaccurate” after it projected…

EXCLUSIVE — Attorney General Steve Marshall will run for Senate in Alabama, becoming the first statewide official to launch a campaign for Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-AL) seat. In an interview with the Washington Examiner, Marshall praised Tuberville, who announced a run for governor on Tuesday, as a “strong voice for Alabama” during his time in…

President Donald Trump is betting he can bring public opinion to his side in a winding legal fight with Harvard, the elite university that, more than any other, has resisted his sweeping policy demands. Harvard has sued the Trump administration twice for actions it says amount to a “campaign of retribution.” Its president, Alan Garber,…