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Deal to extend ObamaCare subsidies faces uphill battle despite GOP optimism

A key GOP senator is expressing optimism that Republicans and Democrats will agree to a deal that would extend expiring health care subsidies, but the...

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Murkowski ‘not satisfied’ with DOJ’s Epstein files release

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) said she is “not satisfied” with the Department of Justice’s rolling release of documents related to...

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Paul redacts portions of Festivus rant as Jeffrey Epstein DOJ protest

Libertarian-leaning Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Christmas Eve took aim at the Justice Department's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files by posting a...

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Trump deploys quick-strike specialized military forces within range of Venezuela

The Defense Department on Monday deployed aircraft designed to transport special-operations forces, troops and equipment as part of an ongoing...

24.12.2025 7

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Democrats divided over how to retake House, Senate majorities

Democratic lawmakers are battling among themselves over whether they need to review the lessons of the disastrous 2024 election as they hope to win...

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Schumer calls on DOJ to release details on Epstein co-conspirators

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) on Tuesday called on the Justice Department to release more details about 10 possible co-conspirators...

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Republicans divided on whether Trump should topple Venezuela's Maduro with military force

Republican lawmakers are divided over whether President Trump should escalate military pressure on Venezuela to oust President Nicolás Maduro, with...

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Schumer calls for Senate to sue administration over Epstein files

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) is pushing for the Senate to sue the Justice Department over the partial disclosure of files related to...

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Sanders to swear in Mamdani as New York’s mayor

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will swear in Zohran Mamdani (D) as New York City’s next mayor in a public ceremony on Jan. 1, a person familiar with...

22.12.2025 2

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Democrats renew government shutdown threat as tensions flare with Trump

Senate Democrats are raising the threat of another government shutdown in late January as tensions with President Trump escalate over a series of...

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Trump move to dismantle climate agency blows up Senate funding deal

A potential deal to fund large swaths of the federal government, including the Departments of Defense and Health and Human Services, collapsed on...

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GOP blocks measure to reverse RFK move on HHS transparency, public comments

Senate Republicans voted Thursday to block a resolution sponsored by Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) to require the Department of Health and Human Services...

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GOP senators break with Hegseth over video of missile strike on survivors

Republican senators are openly questioning Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s decision not to release the full video of a Sept. 2 follow-up strike...

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Trump picks fight with MAGA allies in issuing AI executive order

President Trump has picked a fight with allied MAGA conservatives on Capitol Hill by issuing an executive order to chill state efforts to regulate...

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Senators brace for another possible shutdown in January

Senators in both parties are bracing for another government shutdown next year after Republicans blocked a proposal to extend expiring health...

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GOP defectors raise the heat on Republicans over health vote subsidies

GOP leaders in both chambers of Congress are under growing pressure from rank-and-file Republicans to address health insurance premiums that are...

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Senate GOP health care plan fails on mostly party-line vote

A Republican-drafted proposal to set up health savings accounts for people who buy their health insurance on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace...

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GOP lawmakers unhappy with Trump’s affordability message: ‘You can’t call it a hoax’

Senate Republicans, unsettled by recent Democratic victories in the off-year elections, want President Trump to do more to respond to the issue of...

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Senate Republicans plan key health care vote despite deep divisions

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says Senate Republicans will vote Thursday on a GOP-crafted proposal to address rising health insurance...

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Senate to vote Thursday on GOP health care plan 

The Senate will vote Thursday on a Republican proposal to replace enhanced health insurance subsidies under the Affordable Act with health savings...

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Senate Democrats introduce bill to block Trump from putting face on dollar coin

Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) introduced legislation Tuesday to prevent President Trump or any sitting or living...

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Vulnerable Republicans sweat amid GOP divisions on health care

Swing-state Republican senators who are up for reelection are scrambling for political cover as the Senate prepares to vote on a Democratic bill to...

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Teamsters unveil new Substack newsletter to break through traditional media

The Teamsters, one of the nation’s largest and most diverse unions with 1.3 million members, unveiled a Substack newsletter Monday, becoming the...

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Republicans look to Trump to quell conservative rebellion in Senate

Senate Republican leaders are hoping that President Trump will intervene to quell a conservative rebellion in the upper chamber against a package of...

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GOP senators, lacking confidence in Hegseth, say his future is Trump's call

Republican senators, who are growing increasingly exasperated with the proliferation of high-profile controversies at the Pentagon, are not expressing...

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Paul calls for Hegseth to testify ‘under oath’ on Venezuelan boat strike orders

Republican Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) said Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth should testify before Congress “under oath” about the orders to strike...

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Frustrated GOP barrels toward key health insurance vote without a clear plan

Some Senate Republicans are expressing frustration that their conference hasn’t been able to unify behind a health care plan ahead of a vote next...

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Hawley applauds decision to drop AI-related provision from defense bill

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), a leading Senate critic of the threat he says the artificial intelligence (AI) poses to American workers and impressionable...

03.12.2025 2

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GOP senators demand answers from Hegseth, Pentagon on targeting boat-strike survivors

Republican senators are demanding answers about who at the Pentagon ordered a follow-up strike to kill the initial survivors of a missile strike...

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GOP pessimism grows over any deal to extend expiring health care subsidies

Senate Republicans don’t see a bipartisan deal to extend enhanced health insurance premium subsidies coming together before the Christmas deadline,...

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GOP lawmakers lack confidence in Trump's plans to tackle costs

Republican senators are panning President Trump's latest proposals to help Americans cope with high prices and a slowing economy, a sign of waning...

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Cory Booker: ‘The Democratic Party has failed in my generation’

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) says “the Democratic Party has failed in my generation” and needs to have a “very tough conversation” about how to...

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GOP lawmakers have deep misgivings about Trump’s emerging Ukraine peace deal

Republicans on Capitol Hill have deep misgivings about President Trump’s emerging deal to end the war in Ukraine, as key GOP lawmakers fear the...

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Republicans dumbfounded by Trump’s calls for harsh retribution against Democratic lawmakers

President Trump's heated rhetorical attacks on Democratic lawmakers, whom he called out as “traitors” who deserve to be jailed, have left his...

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Republican lawmakers grow alarmed over signs of 2026 election wipeout

GOP lawmakers are growing increasingly concerned over signs that the 2026 midterm elections could be a wipeout for Republicans that could cost them...

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Republicans frustrated with Bondi over Epstein, Comey ‘messes’ at DOJ

Senate Republicans are venting their frustration over Attorney General Pam Bondi’s management of thousands of records related to convicted sex...

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GOP senators warn Bondi not to slow-walk release of Epstein files

Republican senators are warning Attorney General Pam Bondi not to slow-walk the public release of records and documents related to the convicted sex...

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GOP chair objects to request to remember slain Saudi journalist during crown prince visit: 'Inappropriate' time 

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair James Risch (R-Idaho) on Wednesday objected to what he called an “inappropriate” request by Sen. Tim...

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Thune fires back at House GOP effort to repeal senators’ $500,000 damages provision

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) poured cold water Wednesday on an effort by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to repeal a provision buried in...

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Senate formally approves bill to force Justice Department to release Epstein files

The Senate on Wednesday morning formally approved the House-passed bill requiring the Justice Department to release all unclassified files related to...

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GOP senators worry Trump’s $2K tariff rebates will add too much to debt

Senate Republicans are wrestling over what to do about President Trump’s proposal to give $2,000 tariff dividend checks to most Americans amid...

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Senate unanimously approves bill to force release of Epstein files

The Senate agreed by unanimous consent Tuesday to approve a House-passed bill to require the Justice Department to release all unclassified records...

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Senate ready to quickly pass bill to release Epstein files

Senators say they are ready to act quickly on a House-passed bill requiring the Justice Department to make public all unclassified records and...

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Thune faces tough call on Epstein docs vote 

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) faces a tough decision this week on how to handle a bill that would direct the Department of Justice to...

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Shutdown fight exposes growing turmoil within Democratic Party  

The 43-day government shutdown has exposed the intensifying battle between progressives and centrists over the direction of the Democratic Party in...

17.11.2025 7

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Senate GOP deeply divided over next steps on rising health care costs

Senate Republicans are deeply divided over how to handle rising health insurance premiums now that the longest government shutdown in American history...

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GOP senator Tuberville predicts Democrats will do 'four or five more shutdowns' if filibuster stays

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), a close ally of President Trump, is predicting that Senate Democrats could shut down the government four or five more...

12.11.2025 2

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New poll shows Stefanik 3 points behind Hochul in New York governor’s race

A new poll shows Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), who is running for governor in New York, trailing Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) by only three percentage...

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Democrats press for investigation into partisan shutdown messages on agency websites

Senate Democrats led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) are calling on the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate what they say were...

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Senate passes bill to reopen government; House set to return to DC

The Senate voted Monday evening to end the 41-day government shutdown, setting the stage for the House to reconvene later this week to pick up the...

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