Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., is met by reporters as he walks to his office while Congress works on a government funding solution, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has confirmed 48 of President Donald Trump’s nominees at once, voting for the first time under new rules to begin clearing a backlog of executive branch positions that had ...

Senate Republicans rammed through dozens of President Donald Trump’s nominees on Thursday in their first flex of the Senate’s new rules for confirmations. Lawmakers voted along party lines to confirm ...

The Senate confirmed 48 of President Donald Trump’s nominees in one sweeping vote Thursday, marking the first bloc confirmed after Republicans voted to change Senate rules to speed up the ...

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Friday to block dueling Republican and Democratic proposals to keep the federal government funded on a short-term basis, raising the chances of a shutdown at the end of ...

WASHINGTON – Hours after a stopgap government funding measure passed the House of Representatives, the Senate struck it down, raising the prospects of a shutdown in just over a week. Senators voted ...

WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leaders have made consequential moves this year to weaken or end-run minority power when it stands in the way of their ambitions during the second Donald Trump ...

The Senate voted hours after the House sent them the short-term funding bill. The Senate on Friday failed to advance both the House-passed short-term government funding bill and the Democrat ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune voiced his reservations Wednesday with the Trump administration linking Tylenol use in pregnancy to autism in children, indicating he was “very concerned” about the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. WASHINGTON — The Senate on Friday confirmed Mike Waltz to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, ...