Senate

In the War Against DEI in Science, Researchers See Collateral Damage

By Teresa Carr and Margaret Manto
Senate Republicans Don’t Want to Talk About the House’s Proposed Medicaid Cuts

By Emily Kennard
Republicans Just Put Kash Patel in Charge of the FBI

By Emily Kennard
Mitch McConnell Won’t Run for Reelection

By Amelia Benavides-Colón and Daniella Diaz
Elon Musk’s DOGE ‘Savings’ Aren’t Really Savings

By Shifra Dayak and Mark Alfred
Will Congress Stop Playing ‘Whack-a-Mole’ With Chinese Apps?

By Samuel Larreal
Democratic Senators Concede Age Matters in Elections — Just Don’t Ask Them If They’re Too Old to Run

By Ursula Perano
GOP Senators Are Itching for a Supreme Court Battle — And Have Shown They Would Likely Win

By Ursula Perano
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Gets His Chance to ‘Go Wild’ on the U.S. Health System

By Margaret Manto
The Senate Has an 18-Year Perfect Ethics Streak, Says the Senate

By Dave Levinthal
How Todd Blanche Tried to Woo Democrats at His DOJ Confirmation Hearing

By Jose Pagliery
RFK Jr. Is on the Precipice of Leading the U.S. Health System After a Key Senate Vote

By Margaret Manto
Tulsi Gabbard Confirmed to Run — And Downsize — ODNI

By Shifra Dayak
Louisiana’s Primary System Puts More Pressure on Bill Cassidy to Make a Hard-Right Turn

By Helen Huiskes
Will Other Countries Share Intel With the U.S. Under Trump and Gabbard?

By Shifra Dayak
Republicans Are Unanimously Backing Tulsi Gabbard

By Shifra Dayak
Republicans Say They’re Not Bothered by Elon Musk’s Close Ties to China

By Samuel Larreal
Russell Vought Is Confirmed to Lead Trump’s Office of Management and Budget

By Em Luetkemeyer
The Senate Confirmed Scott Turner as Housing Secretary

By Amelia Benavides-Colón
What Happened to Trump’s Big Push for Criminal Justice Reform?

By Torrence Banks
Democrats and Human Rights Activists Are Already Wondering What Happened to Marco Rubio

By Haley Byrd Wilt and Helen Huiskes
Trump Proposed a U.S. Takeover Of Gaza. Senators Aren’t So Sure.

By Samuel Larreal, Em Luetkemeyer and Emily Kennard
Republicans Fell In Line to Back Tulsi Gabbard in the Intelligence Committee

By Shifra Dayak
RFK Jr. Advanced Out of the Senate Finance Committee, With Bill Cassidy’s Help

By Margaret Manto
Four Trump Nominees Wouldn’t Tell Congress If They’d Refuse Illegal Orders

By Shifra Dayak
‘It Takes Time’: Republicans Find Patience Around the Need to Lower Inflation

By Tinashe Chingarande and Ben T.N. Mause
Senators Begin to Ask: Should Military Helicopters Even Be Training Around DCA?

By Ben T.N. Mause
Republicans Sidestep — Or Even Agree With — Trump Blaming DCA Plane Crash on DEI Policies

By Mark Alfred, Tinashe Chingarande and Ben T.N. Mause
Republicans Put Tulsi Gabbard in the Hot Seat at Her Confirmation Hearing

By Shifra Dayak
RFK Jr. Says Gender-Affirming Care Is ‘Catastrophic’ for Trans Children

By Oriana González