WASHINGTON — Republicans have elected South Dakota Sen. John Thune as the next Senate majority leader, completing a momentous shift in their leadership that elevates a top deputy of Mitch ...

President Donald Trump and Republican leaders in Congress are showing openness to a bill that would impose heavy new sanctions on Russia for its unwillingness to make peace with Ukraine. House Speaker ...

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Some Republican senators are interested in trimming the package of cuts to public broadcasting and global health programs.

Senate Republicans’ main outside groups raised more than $85 million in the first half of 2025, blowing past every previous off-year mark. Axios reported Tuesday that the Senate Leadership Fund and ...

It took nearly a year of work and was the toughest legislation Senate Majority Leader John Thune says he has ever worked on.

While Senator John Thune praises President Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill,” others throughout South Dakota have raised concerns about it. KELOLAND’s Don Jorgensen sat down with Thune about the bill, but ...

U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune says the so-called ‘big beautiful bill’ that was signed into law last week by ...

In the president’s eagerness to score a win and extend tax cuts, he walked away from a key campaign promise on Medicaid. The ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is a key ally of President Trump's, helping get his domestic policy bill passed by the Senate. It is a dramatic reversal from their days as virtual political enemies.

U.S. Senate Republicans approved their signature tax break and spending cuts package Tuesday with a tie-breaking vote cast by ...

Vice President JD Vance provided the tie-breaking vote to get Trump's bill across the finish line. It now must go back to the ...