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GOP Sen. Katie Britt: House-passed bill to extend Haitian refugee status DOA in Senate

Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.), the chair of the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee and a leading GOP voice on immigration issues, says a...

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Senate GOP losing patience with Speaker Johnson as DHS faces crisis

Senate Republicans are growing increasingly frustrated with Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) decision not to put a Senate-passed bill to fund most of...

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White House budget director Vought declines to tell senators cost of Iran war

Russell Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, declined to give senators an estimate of the cost of the military...

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White House budget director: ‘We’re working’ on funding request for Iran conflict

White House Budget Director Russ Vought told senators on Thursday that the White House is still working on a request to send Congress to fund the...

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White House OMB Director Russ Vought: DHS ‘disintegrating’

White House Budget Director Russ Vought told senators at a Budget Committee hearing Thursday that the Department of Homeland Security is...

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Thune urges Trump administration to ‘wrap up’ investigation of Fed chair

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Wednesday urged the Trump administration to “wrap up” its investigation of Federal Reserve Chairman...

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GOP senator calls on House to impeach Boasberg after contempt hearings halted

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is calling on House Republicans to impeach James Boasberg, the chief judge of...

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Senate GOP divided over Trump push for Iran war funding

Senate Republicans are deeply divided over how to handle an expected request from President Trump to fund the military conflict with Iran, which some...

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Senate Republicans plan to vote next week on budget plan to fund ICE, Border Patrol

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters Tuesday that he plans to bring a budget resolution to the Senate floor as soon as next week...

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GOP senator: Trump’s proposal to slap US tolls on ships in Strait of Hormuz would be ‘crazy’

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) on Tuesday said it would be “crazy” for the Trump administration to impose tolls on ships carrying oil, natural gas and...

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GOP senators grow uncomfortable with Trump rhetoric, endgame for Iran

Senate Republicans facing worsening polls want President Trump to rein in his extreme rhetoric, which included an attack on Pope Leo XIV for being...

14.04.2026 10

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GOP sources see Trump shifting to back Senate bill funding most of DHS

Senate Republican sources expect President Trump to get behind a Senate-passed bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) but not...

01.04.2026 9

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GOP’s DHS funding battle turns up the heat on House-Senate Republican civil war

Republicans in the House and Senate are in a battle over how to move forward with funding the Department of Homeland Security after the two chambers...

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Senate Republicans working on GOP-only bill to fund DHS through Trump’s term

Senate Republicans are working on a budget reconciliation package that could pass without any Democratic support and would fund the Department of...

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Booker: Democratic Party ‘has failed this moment’

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), who is eyeing a potential presidential run in 2028, said on Sunday that the Democratic Party “has failed this moment”...

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Rick Scott joins House conservatives in panning Senate Homeland Security funding deal

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), one of President Trump’s closest Senate allies, said Friday he opposed passing a Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...

27.03.2026 6

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Schumer: House GOP plan to pass DHS stopgap is ‘dead’ in the Senate

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) on Friday said that a two-month Homeland Security funding stopgap being proposed by House Republicans...

27.03.2026 9

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Senate agrees to fund TSA and most of DHS, but not ICE

Senators agreed by unanimous consent early Friday morning to a proposal that funds the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and other critical...

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Democrats block Homeland Security funding just before Easter recess

Senate Democrats voted on Thursday to block a House-passed bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), setting the stage for President...

26.03.2026 6

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Trump expected to announce action to solve TSA problems amid DHS shutdown

Senate Republicans expect President Trump to announce an executive action Thursday afternoon to solve the shutdown of the Transportation Security...

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Senate Democrats defeat amendment to require photo ID to vote

Senate Democrats on Thursday defeated an amendment sponsored by Sen. Jon Husted (R), Ohio’s former secretary of state, to require voters to show...

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Democrats worry centrists will undercut them on DHS shutdown amid TSA meltdown

Senate Democrats insisting on major reforms to the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations in exchange for ending the 40-day...

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Hawley bill to end FDA approval mifepristone picks up Senate GOP support

Sen. Josh Hawley’s (R-Mo.) bill to revoke the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the drug mifepristone for use in terminating...

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Graham says he's moving ‘expeditiously’ on ICE, Iran funding under reconciliation

The Senate Budget Committee is moving “expeditiously” to draft a second budget reconciliation bill to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s...

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Deal to fund DHS draws fire from right and left as shutdown continues

A proposal endorsed Monday by President Trump to end the 40-day shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is taking fire from Democrats...

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Senate Democrats reject GOP offer to reopen Homeland Security, partially fund ICE

Senate Democrats on Tuesday rejected a new proposal from Senate Republicans endorsed by President Trump to fund almost all of the Department of...

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Senate Republican bashes GOP proposal to partially fund DHS as a ‘pipe dream’

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), one of President Trump’s strongest allies on Capitol Hill, is bashing a proposal that some GOP colleagues are floating to...

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Senate GOP says Trump signals shift to backing DHS compromise with Democrats

Senate Republicans believe that President Trump is willing to accept a potential deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security following a White...

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Trump says he is a ‘BIG proponent’ of ICE wearing masks

President Trump on Monday prominently rejected a core Democratic demand in the negotiations to reopen the Department of Homeland Security by declaring...

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Graham invokes Iwo Jima in call for Trump to 'take Kharg Island'

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) called for the Marines to seize Kharg Island, Iran’s main oil export hub, which lies about 20 miles off the coast of...

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GOP cracks in Senate begin to show in DHS shutdown fight

Cracks are beginning to show in the Senate GOP’s unity as the Department of Homeland Security shutdown stretches into its 38th day, as some...

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Senate advances Mullin to head Department of Homeland Security

The Senate voted Sunday to advance Sen. Markwayne Mullin’s (R-Okla.) to succeed Kristi Noem as secretary of Homeland Security, taking a step toward...

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Cruz proposes splitting ICE from Homeland Security funding bill to end airport chaos

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a leading Senate conservative, is proposing to colleagues the idea of splitting off Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...

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Republicans reject Democrats’ effort to pay TSA by suspending Senate rules

Senate Republicans on Saturday voted against an unusual procedural gambit by Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to suspend the Senate...

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Democrats block SAVE America Act amendment to bar transgender athletes in women’s sports

Senate Democrats voted Saturday to defeat a Republican-sponsored amendment to the SAVE America Act that would prohibit transgender athletes from...

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DHS shutdown stretches to 35 days as Democrats block funding bill

The shutdown of the Department of the Homeland Security (DHS) stretched to 35 days on Friday as Senate Democrats voted to block a House-passed bill to...

20.03.2026 20

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Senate passes measure prohibiting preferential airport screening for lawmakers

The Senate approved by unanimous consent Thursday a proposal to end the special treatment members of Congress get at airports that allows them to...

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Senate GOP plows forward on SAVE America Act amid pressure from right

The Senate is planning to debate and vote on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, called the SAVE America Act, through this weekend as Senate...

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White House seeks to circumvent Schumer on potential DHS funding deal

White House border czar Tom Homan met with a group of centrist Democrats at the Capitol on Thursday, circumventing Senate Democratic Leader Chuck...

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Illinois Democratic nominee says she wouldn’t support Schumer as Senate leader

Illinois Lieutenant Gov. Juliana Stratton, the Democrat favored to win the race to succeed Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), says she won’t support Sen....

19.03.2026 20

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Thune: Rand Paul, Mullin ‘have some personal history’ they must ‘work through’

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says that Senate Homeland Security Committee Chair Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.),...

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GOP debate on SAVE America Act morphs into 'circular firing squad'

Senate Republicans say the debate within their conference over how hard to push for passage of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America)...

19.03.2026 20

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Republicans defeat resolution to halt US military strikes against Iran

Senate Republicans on Wednesday defeated a Democratic-sponsored motion to advance a war powers resolution to halt President Trump’s military strikes...

18.03.2026 10

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Thune: Republicans will use SAVE Act in midterms if Democrats don't get 'on board'

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says Republicans will attack Democrats in the fall elections for failing to enact the SAVE America Act if...

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GOP tempers flare over how to pass SAVE America Act

Tempers are starting to boil within the Senate Republican Conference as disagreements arise over how to handle President Trump’s No. 1 legislative...

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Senate votes to begin marathon debate on SAVE America Act

The Senate voted Tuesday to begin a long and contentious debate over the SAVE America Act, a bill that would require people to show documented proof...

17.03.2026 30

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White House reviews Democratic offer to reopen Homeland Security

White House negotiators are reviewing a Democratic proposal to fund and reopen the Department of Homeland Security, but the talks are inching along...

17.03.2026 20

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Tillis blasts GOP's 'lazy and unstrategic' handling of Texas GOP primary, SAVE Act

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) says he’s getting tired of Republicans being “lazy and unstrategic” amid intraparty disputes over both the SAVE...

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Republicans collide with Trump over no-excuse absentee voting, SAVE Act

President Trump's push to eliminate voting by mail without excuses such as illness or military duty, a component of the Safeguard American Voter...

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Schumer says SAVE America Act among ‘most despicable’ bills he’s ever seen

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) is calling the SAVE America Act, the voting reform legislation that Senate Republicans will bring to the...

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