Senate Majority Leader John Thune has deputized a folksy Louisiana lawmaker known for his blunt political observations and creative analogies to take the lead in convincing President Donald Trump ...

Shortly after Donald Trump blindsided senators and endorsed the House’s plan to advance the president’s agenda last week, Senate Majority Leader John Thune convened his leadership team to ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) urged her Democratic colleagues in the Senate to vote against the House-passed stopgap spending measure, warning them to be weary of “procedural ...

Senator John Fetterman shocked listeners when he started talking about 'explosive diarrhea' while discussing a looming government shutdown. The Pennsylvania Democrat has been vocal that he ...

GOP Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Tuesday moved to push House Republicans aside and take the lead on President Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill package on border security, energy and ...

Washington — Senate Majority Leader John Thune announced Tuesday that the Senate will move forward with a vote on a budget proposal to begin enacting President Trump's agenda this week ...

WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Wednesday that Democrats would reject a government funding bill that Republicans wrote and passed through the House, leaving it ...

Senate Democrats say privately that they will not allow the government to shut down Saturday, despite growing pressure from activists and liberal lawmakers who want them to kill a GOP-crafted six ...

REPORT It’s Wednesday. Can you believe it was five years ago this week that COVID-19 began to shut down the world? Walt ...

Shutting down the government is not an outcome President Trump wants. It is not an outcome Senate Republicans want. It costs ...