John Thune

February 5, 2025

February 4, 2025

Top GOPer Cowardly Pretends He Has No Clue What Trump’s Doing at USAID

Senator John Thune was quick to bury his head in the sand.

January 31, 2025

Trump’s Tariffs Wars Are About to Cost a Very Important Republican

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is gonna bear the brunt of Trump’s tariffs when it comes to his home state. Could that set up a standoff between the two men?

January 21, 2025

Malcolm Ferguson

Republicans Suddenly Illiterate After Trump’s January 6 Pardons

Republicans are bending over backward to excuse Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons of the January 6 insurrectionists.

December 11, 2024

Edith Olmsted

Senior GOP Senator Secretly Refusing to Bend the Knee to Trump

Incoming Majority Leader John Thune has a plan to defy Donald Trump.

December 5, 2024

Malcolm Ferguson

Republicans Are Already Fighting in Sign of Chaos to Come

Donald Trump’s biggest obstacle may be his own party.

November 14, 2024

Edith Olmsted

How Trump Could Steamroll Congress—and His Own Party—on Matt Gaetz

Republicans are worried Donald Trump is about to bypass them in making his Cabinet appointments.

November 13, 2024

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Senate Republicans Reject MAGA for Mitch McConnell Ally in Shock Vote

Senate Republicans delivered a blow to Donald Trump.

November 11, 2024

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

MAGA Is Pissing Off Republicans With Its Push for Senate Leader

Mitch McConnell is on his way out—and Donald Trump’s biggest allies are trying to bully Republican senators into backing their pick for his replacement.

February 29, 2024

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

The Three Johns Who Could Succeed McConnell, Ranked From Horrible to Worse

So far, the main contenders to replace Mitch McConnell are all men named John. What differentiates them?

January 25, 2024

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Trump’s About to Win This Nomination—And Top Republicans Have Gone Mum

Some key Republicans are still silent on whether they’re backing Donald Trump for the party’s nomination.

December 21, 2023

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

Guess Who Hasn’t Said a Single Word on Colorado’s Trump Ballot Decision?

Top Senate Republicans don’t seem all that outraged by Colorado’s decision to kick Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot.

September 20, 2023

Grace Segers

The Shadow Race to Succeed Mitch McConnell

Senate Republicans aren’t quite ready to think about life after McConnell, but his three potential successors have made their interest known.

July 13, 2023

Grace Segers

How the Child Tax Credit Became a Partisan Issue

Senator Michael Bennet is hoping that a hearing on the child tax credit could encourage bipartisan action.

December 1, 2022

Alex Shephard

Surprise, Surprise: Republicans Are Planning to Hold the Debt Ceiling Hostage—Again

They’re risking catastrophe so they can cut Medicare and Social Security.

August 9, 2022

Matt Ford

Don’t Be Fooled by the Inflation Reduction Act’s Big Win, the Senate Still Sucks

The biggest takeaway from a long weekend of legislative action is that this is no way to run a country.

August 7, 2022

Grace Segers

The Inflation Reduction Act Passes After a Long and Exhausting Weekend in the U.S. Senate

The upper chamber's “vote-a-rama” may sound like a real fun way to spend a Saturday night, but guess what?

March 4, 2021

Alex Pareene

Just Rewrite the Senate Rules Already

Stunts like forcing legislation to be read aloud would be trivially easy to get rid of, if anyone wanted to.

February 22, 2021

Walter Shapiro

The GOP Is Imploding in Spectacular Fashion

Republican blood feuds are jeopardizing the party’s hope of reclaiming Congress in 2022.

September 25, 2020

Alex Shephard

Senate Republicans Have No Intention of Stopping Trump From Stealing the Election

The Beltway press was quick to publicize apparent rebukes of the president’s remarks—all while the GOP prepares to challenge an unfavorable result in the November election.

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