The Senate’s advise-and-consent process rests almost entirely with the majority, with any setbacks the incoming ...

Incoming U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-South Dakota, signaled Tuesday he’s willing to push back against potential ...

Still, a new chamber could change things. Banks ran as a Trump devotee. Gallego, previously a member of the Congressional ...

House Republicans are pushing back on Senate GOP negotiators over how long to extend President-elect Trump’s tax cuts, which ...

Responding to Trump is a challenge for anyone in government, but the position of majority leader is especially influential. In defending the Senate’s independence and norms, McConnell has sometimes ...

The Senate would be fundamentally weakened and profoundly diminished if it were to recess the Senate and allow the incoming president to make interim appointments unilaterally and unchallenged, as ...

Politicians and faith leaders are raising concerns after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for ...

The senator will be sworn in on Jan. 3, 2025. Senator Thune will take the reins as majority leader from Senator Mitch ...

Between new anti-weed Senate Majority leader John Thune & House Speaker Mike Johnson, the path to cannabis reform just got a lot narrower. With just six weeks left in 2024, Senate Majority Leader ...

Ari Melber showed how Trump’s attorney general pick may have alienated many of the senators he needs to confirm him.

While some of President-elect Donald Trump 's Cabinet picks have raised eyebrows and calls for the Senate to block their ...