Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images 3 GOP Senators Vote Against Advancing Trump Bill That Slashes Foreign Aid and NPR Funding Three GOP senators opposed a bill to cut $9 billion in previously approved spending; Vice President J.D. Vance delivered a tie-breaking vote. By Jack Davis July 16, 2025
Kayla Bartkowski / Getty Images GOP Senator Who Voted 'Yes' on 'Big Beautiful Bill' Says She Hopes It Fails in the House Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska says if the Big Beautiful Bill fails in the House, it might truly become a success. By Jack Davis July 1, 2025
Kevin Lamarque - Pool / Getty ImagesCommentary Vance Saves Trump with Last Minute Move and Tanks Rand Paul's Mutiny with Single Blow In defense of Trump's bold, necessary, and constitutional tariffs, Vance cast a tiebreaking vote that gave us a modern, Madisonian moment. By Michael Schwarz May 2, 2025
Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP / Getty ImagesCommentary Senate RINOs Turn on Trump to Undo Key Policy, But Then a Republican Colleague Points Out the Obvious As Barrasso noted, the four GOP defectors merely wasted time, for Trump will win on tariffs in the end, as history suggests he should. By Michael Schwarz April 3, 2025
Kayla Bartkowski / Getty ImagesCommentary Republicans Help Dems Pass Bill to Block Trump Tariffs, 24 Hours After Canadian Leader Wanted to Give Trump Everything Senate GOP dissidents have erected roadblocks, but Trump seems certain to plow ahead with his James Madison-like efforts on tariff policy. By Michael Schwarz April 3, 2025
Andrew Harnik / Getty ImagesCommentary Trump Accuses 4 Republican Senators of Being 'Unbelievably Disloyal' Amid Tariff Bill Battle One can neither ignore Republicans' history of intra-party squabbling nor deny that tariffs long ago amounted to a core Republican value. By Michael Schwarz April 2, 2025
Andrew Harnik / Getty ImagesCommentary Democratic Senator Shuts Down His Party's Hysteria About a 'Constitutional Crisis' Under Trump “When it was [President] Joe Biden, then you [had] a conservative judge jam it up on him," Fetterman said in response. By C. Douglas Golden February 14, 2025
Demetrius Freeman - The Washington Post / Getty ImagesCommentary RFK Jr. Gets Great Confirmation News After His Hearing Draws to a Close Kennedy's nomination by Trump has been one of the president's dicier picks, but it might have just picked up some momentum. By Joe Saunders January 30, 2025
Josh Edelson - AFP / Getty ImagesCommentary Saving RFK: Billionaire Biden Donor to Fund Primaries Against 13 US Sens Who Won't Support Nomination Rather than complaining about big money, Americans should build George Washington-like statues to patriotic billionaires such as Shanahan. By Michael Schwarz January 29, 2025
@Townhall.com / X screenshotCommentary Watch: JD Vance Casts Tie-Breaker Vote Confirming Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense J.D. Vance stepped up, Pete Hegseth will be our next defense secretary, and all is right with the world for one night. By C. Douglas Golden January 25, 2025