South Dakota Senator and U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune defends government efficiency cuts being made by the Trump administrative team, including to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He does ...

Shortly after Donald Trump blindsided senators and endorsed the House’s plan to advance the president’s agenda Wednesday, ...

Trump and Republican congressional leaders could fumble their way into a prolonged and painful shutdown of the federal ...

John Cornyn (R-TX), and 42 of their Republican colleagues have introduced the Death Tax Repeal Act, a bill that would do away ...

Rounds and Thune have followed party lines on all of President Trump's cabinet member nominations, all of whom have confirmed ...

U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving sitting senator, has announced he will leave Congress at the end of his term.

Washington — Senate Republicans are forging ahead with a narrower budget proposal focused on defense, border security and energy priorities, despite President Trump’s decision on Wednesday to endorse ...

McConnell, the longest-serving Senate party leader in U.S. history, chose his 83rd birthday to share his decision not to run ...

U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, after spent decades in the nation's Capitol shaping Republican priorities, will not seek ...

Senate Republicans announced Wednesday they are muscling ahead with their preferred legislative strategy to jumpstart Donald Trump’s agenda — just hours after the president himself backed a much ...