Stef Kight

"I think we should pay down the deficit."

It's the latest move in a long, ongoing battle between Trump and Schiff.

After 40 days, eight Senate Democrats broke with their party.

It is a procedural, but critical vote.

It's another example of the shutdown's sweeping global impacts.

Senate appropriators are hustling to finish language on a three-part appropriations package.

Trump warned the party would "get killed" and be viewed as "do-nothing Republicans."

From tariffs to troop levels, some Republicans are starting to flex their institutional muscles.

House GOP leadership is leaning into crime and violence, placing blame squarely on vulnerable Democrats.

"You all just figured out, 29 days in, that, oh, there might be some consequences," he added.

The vote serves as a symbolic rebuke of Trump's trade policies.

It's the first real rebuttal to Democratic warnings about skyrocketing premiums.

Kennedy said Trump had called him to try to convince him to change his mind on blue slips.

If Democrats want "to pay SNAP recipients, open the government," Thune said.

Ingrassia is the latest in a recent string of troubled nominations.

They're boosted by a messy Democratic primary in the state.

"They weaponized the DOJ and FBI to try to access records on me," Cruz said.

"I don't think Schumer's negotiating on any of this," Thune said in a sit-down interview with Axios. "He's in a box."

GOP senators from major soybean producing states pressed Trump's trade representative.

"The U.S. Senate race in Texas must be about more than a petty feud between two men who have spent months trading barbs," Hunt said.