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GOP rushes to defend Powell, Federal Reserve from DOJ, extending breaks with Trump

Senate Republicans are rushing to defend Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell from a Department of Justice (DOJ) criminal investigation that Powell...

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Senate advances government funding measure as shutdown deadline looms

The Senate voted overwhelmingly on Monday to advance a minibus appropriations package, taking a step toward funding another swath of government before...

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Warren rips Sinema over post-Senate influence career

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Monday ripped her old colleague, former Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), for “cashing in” by representing...

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Thune: DOJ probe of Fed Chair Powell ‘better be serious’ 

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) warned on Monday that the Department of Justice’s criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chairman...

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GOP senators seek to rein in Trump amid concerns over military escalation in Venezuela

Several Senate Republicans are seeking to rein in President Trump’s plans for Venezuela amid concerns that the president may deploy thousands of...

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GOP senator calls for local officials to be involved in Minneapolis ICE investigation

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is calling for local officials in Minnesota to be involved in the investigation of the fatal shooting of 37-year-old...

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GOP lawmakers question Noem’s handling of ICE-related shooting in Minnesota

Republicans on Capitol Hill are expressing skepticism over Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s handling of the Trump administration’s...

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Collins claps back at Trump criticism of vote to block US troops to Venezuela

Vulnerable Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) clapped back at President Trump Thursday over his irate social media post blasting the “stupidity” of GOP...

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GOP senators push back hard on talk of Greenland takeover by Trump officials

Republican senators are telling senior White House officials, including senior policy adviser Stephen Miller, to “drop” talk of a U.S. takeover of...

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Senate Republican: Greenland invasion would be ‘weapons-grade stupid’

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) says that a U.S. military invasion of Greenland would be “weapons-grade stupid” and he doesn’t think that President...

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Graham: Trump 'greenlit' tough Russia sanctions bill amid rising tensions in North Atlantic

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a prominent defense hawk, says President Trump “greenlit” a long-delayed bipartisan Senate bill to impose tough...

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GOP senator on Trump Jan. 6 pardons: 'We let bad people go'

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.) marked the five-year anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack by criticizing President Trump’s decision to pardon...

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Sen. Rick Scott: Cuban government will be overthrown ‘this year’ or ‘next year’

Republican Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), a close ally of President Trump, is predicting the Cuban government will be overthrown “this year” or “next...

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Democrats see funding as key to curb Trump ambitions on Venezuela, Greenland and beyond

A growing number of Senate Democrats say they should use every tool at their disposal to rein in President Trump’s efforts to seize control of...

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GOP, Democratic senators say Trump should 'respect sovereignty' of Denmark on Greenland

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.) and Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), the co-chairs of the bipartisan Senate NATO Observer Group, issued a...

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Thune dismisses prospect of military seizure of Greenland

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Tuesday dismissed the prospect of deploying the military to seize mineral-rich Greenland, even though...

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Trump officials to brief senators on Venezuela Wednesday

A group of senior Trump administration officials including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will brief all...

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GOP fears Trump's foray into nation-building in Venezuela

Republicans are worried that President Trump may embrace a new round of nation-building in Venezuela, something he renounced earlier in his political...

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Paul: Lindsey Graham was behind Trump’s decision to topple Maduro

Conservative Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Monday pointed the finger directly at his colleague, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), as the primary instigator...

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Two GOP senators caution Hegseth on punishing Kelly

Two high-profile Republican senators on Monday warned Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth against reducing Sen. Mark Kelly’s (D-Ariz.) military rank...

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Schumer, Democrats face pressure to wage new shutdown fight

Congress is less than a month away from another potential government shutdown, and pressure is mounting on Democratic leaders to have another showdown...

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Trump administration informed Gang of Eight of Venezuela operation after it started

The Trump administration informed the “Gang of Eight,” the top Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate and House and the chairmen and...

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Kaine: Trump conducted ‘unauthorized’ military attack on Venezuela

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, on Saturday said the military...

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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...

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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...

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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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