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
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
Jim Watson - Pool / Getty Images JD Vance Skewers Mitch McConnell for 'One of the Great Acts of Political Pettiness I've Ever Seen' Vice President J.D. Vance let Sen. Mitch McConnell have it Tuesday when the former Senate majority leader voted against another Trump nominee. By Randy DeSoto April 8, 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
Mark Schiefelbein - File / APBreaking Sen. Mitch McConnell to Announce Retirement Sen. Mitch McConnell is announcing on Thursday that he won’t seek reelection next year, ending a decades-long tenure in D.C. By The Associated Press February 20, 2025
Win McNamee / Getty ImagesBreaking Breaking: RFK Jr. Confirmed - 52 of 53 Republicans Vote 'Yes' The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the next secretary of Health and Human Services. By Randy DeSoto February 13, 2025
Andrew Harnik / Getty Images Mitch McConnell Suffers Multiple Falls at Capitol, Requires Assistance from Fellow Senators: Report Former Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell fell down stairs Wednesday at the Capitol, according to new reports. By Jack Davis February 5, 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