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Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), the chief deputy whip, is the early frontrunner to replace Sen. Dick Durbin as Senate Dem whip. But he could face competition from two powerful Democratic women: Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.). thehill.com/homenews/senat…


Ted Cruz for president? He has high name ID and a national fundraising network. He's filling the lane of "traditional conservative" by calling out tariffs as taxes, warning that Russia is not our friend & opposing tax hikes on the wealthy. thehill.com/homenews/senat…


Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) in WashPost op-ed says working-class Americans should get to take mortgage interest, child tax credit and charitable deductions against payroll taxes. He says “blue-collar workers haven’t gotten a real pay raise in decades." thehill.com/homenews/senat…


Thune announces the Senate will hold four votes at 1 am. The Senate will recess until 1 am. Votes will be limited to 15 minutes apiece.


Procedural hardball! Senate Majority Leader John Thune announces on Senate floor that cloture on John D. Caine will ripen at 1 am on Friday morning setting up a Senate vote at that time. He announces late-night cloture vote after Sen. Chuck Schumer objected to request to speed…


Chuck Schumer slams Trump's zig-zagging on tariff policy. "This was not a week of 3-D chess, 4-D chess or even checkers," he said. "People think Trump is playing 3-D chess but most of the time the staff is just trying to keep him from eating the pieces," he added.


Breaking: the former director of global policy at Facebook told senators Wednesday that she saw Meta executives “repeatedly undermine U.S. national security and betray American values” during her seven-year stint in the job. She says she witnessed Meta executives provide the…


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.@alexanderbolton asked Senate ML Thune how China tariffs could affect South Dakota “There's a lot of rhetoric right now, but I'm hoping that in the end, that the Chinese, like a lot of other countries have, come to the table. There is clearly, in my view, room for negotiation"


VA Secretary Doug Collins will speak to Senate Republicans at lunch today, per a source familiar with the schedule.


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House Budget Cmte Chair Jodey Arrington jokes to reporters on way into House GOP conference meeting “By the way, if you all know anybody who wants to be Budget Chairman…” Can he support the budget resolution? “We’ll see after this”


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Former N.H. governor @ChrisSununu said he *won't* run for US Senate in 2026. "No. No, I'm not going to run," he just said on @thepulseofnh this morning.


Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) says Grassley-Cantwell bill to limit Trump’s tariff authority doesn’t have a future because the president has vowed to veto it.


Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) says he’s not surprised at all by President Trump’s threat to veto his bill to sunset tariffs without congressional approval, saying the president is “going to be very jealous” about giving up tariff authority.


Former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) is questioning President Trump’s decisions to pick “amateur isolationists” for senior policy jobs at the Pentagon and to fire Gen. Timothy Haugh, the head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, without…


Uh oh, budget trouble brewing in the House. House Budget Chair Jodey Arrington blasts Senate budget as "unserious and disappointing" and Freedom Caucus Reps. Andy Harris and Chip Roy say they can't support Senate GOP-passed budget as of now. thehill.com/homenews/senat…


Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) are only two Republicans to vote against Senate budget resolution. Resolution is adopted 51-48. Lisa Murkowski has brief conversation with Majority Leader John Thune after voting for resolution.


Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) vote late in favor of budget resolution, approaching clerk together after sitting next to each other earlier in the vote.


Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) just voted against the Senate budget resolution.


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