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GOP senators hope to avoid Trump agenda becoming a 'trainwreck'

Republicans are looking to regroup on President Trump's agenda, which one GOP lawmaker says is becoming a "trainwreck." Senate Republicans met at the...

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Fetterman pushes back on health claims: My doctors say ‘John is great’

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) is pushing back against claims reported by New York Magazine that he is behaving erratically, driving recklessly and...

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GOP senators fear Marjorie Taylor Greene could cost them Georgia Senate race

Republican senators are waving off firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) from jumping into next year’s Georgia Senate race, voicing concerns...

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Tillis tells White House he won’t back controversial Trump pick for US attorney for DC

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), a key vote on the Senate Judiciary Committee, says he will not support Ed Martin’s nomination to serve as U.S. attorney...

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Democrats cautiously open door to another Harris run in 2028

Senate Democrats are skeptical about their former colleague, former Vice President Kamala Harris, making another presidential run in 2028 after she...

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Senate GOP chair knocks Trump budget over military spending

Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) knocked President Trump’s 2026 budget proposal on Friday for not doing enough to keep...

02.05.2025 2

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GOP senators wonder about Hegseth’s future amid Trump administration turmoil

Senate Republicans are standing by embattled Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, but they are privately wondering how much time he has left atop the...

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GOP senators express disappointment over reported Waltz resignation

Republican senators expressed disappointment Thursday over reports that national security adviser Mike Waltz would be stepping down from his post...

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Schiff, Murphy reintroduce assault weapons ban

Freshman Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) joined Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and other Democrats on Wednesday to reintroduce the assault weapons ban, a...

30.04.2025 2

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Trump’s flirtation with millionaire tax increase gets strong pushback from the right

President Trump is getting heat from his right flank for declaring he loves the concept of a millionaires’ tax increase even though he says he knows...

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Senate Democrat on judge's arrest: 'Gravely serious and drastic move'

Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) says the Trump administration’s arrest of a Wisconsin county judge for allegedly helping an immigrant avoid law...

25.04.2025 2

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Trump trade war could reshape 2026 battle for the Senate  

Republicans are heavily favored to keep control of the Senate in next year’s midterm elections, but President Trump’s sinking approval rating and...

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Schatz, Klobuchar, Murray in competition to succeed Durbin

Sens. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) are viewed by Senate insiders as the three lawmakers competing to...

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Abrego Garcia inflames Trump tensions with some conservatives, libertarians

President Trump’s handling of the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an immigrant who was mistakenly sent to a prison in El Salvador, is inflaming...

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Schatz: Rubio’s State Department overhaul will erode US global leadership

Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), ranking member of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that oversees state and foreign operations, says that Secretary...

22.04.2025 4

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Trump’s attacks on Fed’s Powell ramp up GOP’s economic fears

President Trump's ramped-up attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell have Washington Republicans bracing for a confrontation that could make the...

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Is Ted Cruz running again? Texas carves out unique lane in Trump's GOP

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who finished in second place to President Trump in the 2016 Republican presidential primary, has distinguished himself from...

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Schumer invokes Senate 'blue slip' to block Trump US attorney nominees

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) has invoked the Senate’s “blue slip” tradition to block President Trump’s appointees to serve as...

16.04.2025 3

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Republicans quietly hope Supreme Court bails them out on Trump’s trade war

Republican lawmakers are quietly hoping the Supreme Court will hit the brakes on President Trump’s trade war, which has become a growing political...

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Republicans fear Trump’s trade war could lead to political wipeout

Republican lawmakers say there’s a good chance that President Trump's trade war will boomerang on Republicans politically in 2026, as rising prices...

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Bennet, Democratic senator from Colorado, to run for governor

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), an influential member of the Senate Democratic conference, who has been a leading voice on expanding the Child Tax...

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Senate GOP divided over House demands for spending cuts

Senate Republicans are deeply divided over demands by House conservatives to cut at least $1.5 trillion, and possibly more, from the federal budget...

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Democratic senators question possible insider trading on Trump tariff pause

Sens. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) are demanding that the Office of Government Ethics investigate what they say are potential...

10.04.2025 3

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GOP lawmakers exhale deeply after Trump backtracks on trade war

Republican senators breathed out a sigh of relief when they found out at a lunch meeting Wednesday that President Trump announced he would drop...

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Whistleblower tells senators that Meta undermined U.S. security, interests

Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former director of global public policy at Facebook, which is now called Meta, testified at a Senate hearing Wednesday that...

09.04.2025 3

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GOP lawmakers fear China looms as obstacle to Trump's trade vision

Republican lawmakers fear the defiant Chinese response to President Trump’s sweeping tariffs leaves the world’s two largest economies hurtling...

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Senate confirms Trump’s controversial pick for Pentagon No. 3 job

The Senate voted Tuesday to confirm Elbridge Colby, President Trump’s “lightning rod” pick to serve as the Pentagon’s under secretary for...

08.04.2025 3

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Farm-state Republicans rocked by tariffs fear Trump lacks exit strategy

Republicans in Congress feel rattled about what they say is the lack of a clear outcome or exit strategy for President Trump’s trade war, which they...

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Senate advances Trump’s controversial Pentagon nominee

The Senate voted largely along party lines Monday to advance Elbridge Colby, President Trump’s controversial pick to serve as the Defense Department...

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House budget chair blasts Senate resolution as 'unserious and disappointing'

House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) on Saturday blasted the Senate's budget resolution, passed by the upper chamber only hours...

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McConnell calls out Trump for hiring 'amateur isolationists' at Pentagon, firing NSA director

Former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is questioning President Trump’s decisions to pick “amateur isolationists” for senior...

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Senate passes budget, setting up showdown with House over Trump agenda

Senate Republicans voted early Saturday morning to pass a budget resolution that will be critical to advancing President Trump’s legislative agenda,...

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GOP senators express alarm over scale of Trump tariffs

Republican senators are expressing varying degrees of shock and alarm at the scale of President Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs against trading...

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Cruz: High tariffs 'in perpetuity' would not be good economic policy

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Thursday warned that if President Trump’s tariffs on trading partners last for months it will hurt the economy and...

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Collins 'concerned' budget language could lead to Medicaid cuts

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who will be one of the Democrats’ top political targets in 2026, says she is “concerned” about language in the...

03.04.2025 3

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4 GOP senators vote with Democrats to undo Trump tariffs on Canada

A group of Republican senators voted along with Democrats on Wednesday for a resolution to undo President Trump's 25 percent tariffs on Canadian...

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GOP braces for potential defeat on Trump tariff bill

Senate Republicans are bracing for the passage of a bipartisan bill to undo President Trump’s 25-percent tariff against Canada, which would deal...

02.04.2025 7

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Thune urging GOP colleagues to kill resolution to undo Trump tariffs

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is urging Republicans to defeat a Democratic-sponsored resolution to undo President Trump’s 25-percent...

01.04.2025 2

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Senate parliamentarian could make or break Trump agenda

Senate Republicans are facing crunch time on a long-overdue budget resolution, which has divided their conference over the possibility of cutting...

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Senate Republicans urge Trump, allies to stop threatening courts

Republican senators are warning that any efforts to impeach James Boasberg, the judge who ruled against President Trump's deportation of alleged...

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McConnell: US headed for ‘Russia wins, America loses’ headline on Ukraine deal

Former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) warned in a speech Thursday that U.S. negotiators trying to end the war in Ukraine are headed...

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Mark Kelly hits back at Musk: ‘Elon standing with' billionaires

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) on Thursday slammed what he called senior Trump adviser Elon Musk’s loyalties to billionaires after Musk accused the...

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GOP lawmakers warn against federal records destruction in Signal chats

Republican senators are warning that any conversation taking place between senior Trump administration officials over the commercial app, Signal,...

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GOP chair: ‘You can’t impeach a judge just because you disagree with their opinion’

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the 91-year-old chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, pushed back Thursday against calls by President Trump and some...

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White House withdrawing Stefanik nomination to serve as U.S. ambassador to UN

The White House has informed the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that it is withdrawing Rep. Elise Stefanik’s (R-N.Y.) nomination...

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GOP lawmakers turn up the pressure on Hegseth

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is under close scrutiny as Republican lawmakers criticize his handling of sensitive military information in a group...

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Thune: GOP will find out how journalist was included in Trump war plans chat group

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says Republican senators will get to the bottom of how Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The...

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Senate Democrat questions what Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez have 'actually done'

Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D) revealed some of her frustration with progressives who are criticizing mainstream Democrats for not doing enough to...

21.03.2025 7

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Trump on collision course with GOP defense hawks over NATO

President Trump is on a collision course with Republican defense hawks over the question of whether the United States should continue its 75-year...

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McConnell warns US giving up military command of NATO would weaken alliance

Former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) warned on Thursday that the Trump administration would significantly weaken NATO if the United...

21.03.2025 20

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