President Trump announced his support for Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton as the campaign against Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico continues.
The Senate adopted a resolution Thursday to withhold senators' paychecks during government shutdowns, passing unanimously 99-0 in a rare display of bipartisan accountability.
Sen. Bill Cassidy (L-LA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, is demanding answers from two Rhode Island health centers and a federal agency over whether taxpayer dollars are funding gender transition services for minors and then paying the legal bills when those patients sue.
Senate Republicans released their long-anticipated immigration enforcement reconciliation package Monday night, unveiling $72 billion in proposed spending split across two Senate committees that would mark one of the largest federal investments in border security on record.
The Senate voted 50-48 early Thursday morning to adopt a budget resolution that would allow Republicans to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol through a partisan reconciliation bill, bypassing the 60-vote threshold required to defeat a Democratic filibuster.
A string of deaths and disappearances involving researchers with ties to U.S. military, nuclear, and aerospace programs has reached 11 cases, with President Donald Trump saying Thursday the federal government is investigating and expects answers within days.
The Senate voted early Friday morning to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, partially resolving a budget impasse that has stretched since February.
The Senate confirmed Colin McDonald on Tuesday as the Justice Department's top fraud prosecutor, putting a veteran federal attorney in charge of a sweeping effort to recover billions of taxpayer dollars lost to state-level fraud schemes.
