U.S. Senate News

With the Senate Finance Committee preparing to interrogate Dr. Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator, Friday morning, one Senate Republican says Oz’s record on transgenderism and abortion is “concerning.” Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., told EWTN that Oz “promoted, I know, trans doctors and activists on his…

Editor’s note: After this article was published, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer reversed course on the funding bill. “Either proceed with the bill before us or risk Donald Trump throwing America into the chaos of a shutdown. This in my view is no choice at all. While the [House bill] is very bad, the potential…

Even as a bipartisan coalition of 17 lawmakers push to lock clocks in the U.S. in permanent daylight saving time, many Americans say they want permanent standard time, according to a new poll.  Americans lost an hour of sleep over the weekend as the clocks skipped from 1:59 a.m. to 3 a.m. early Sunday morning….

Amid reported mass killings of ethno-religious minorities in Syria, senators are reluctant to recommend intervention in a region that has been a focal point of American foreign policy in years past. It was a bloody weekend in Syria, where forces loyal to the government, jihadists, and individual actors reportedly killed hundreds of civilians.  Many were…

Senate Majority Leader John Thune didn’t mince words at a Tuesday afternoon news conference. If a government shutdown happens, the South Dakota Republican said, it “will be entirely on the Democrats.” Thune reaffirmed that Senate Republicans are prepared to pass a continuing resolution to keep the government open. Nevertheless, some Democrats would have to join…

Canceling federal contracts and grants are real savings that can be done at the executive level through the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency, some Republican senators assert, although with an eye to using congressional action as well to cut costs. “I think it’s been very effective, and it can be very effective. And I…

Republican members of Congress shared with The Daily Signal what they expect—and hope—to hear in President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night.  Rep. Nathaniel Moran, R-Texas, told The Daily Signal he expects Trump to “come out swinging … like he did in his second inaugural” on Jan. 20. “I think…

The White House has unveiled the theme of President Donald Trump’s Tuesday night address to a joint session of Congress. In his speech focused on “The Renewal of the American Dream,” Trump will highlight accomplishments from his second term so far, what he has done for the economy, the push for additional border security funding,…

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump’s White House is calling on Senate Democrats to represent the vast majority of Americans by voting Monday night to bar males from girls and women’s sports. “Given America’s overwhelming support to protect women’s sports, Senate Democrats should put aside their left-wing agenda and vote to pass this nonpartisan,…

After the passage of the House of Representatives’ budget resolution on Tuesday, GOP lawmakers face a major challenge: getting Senate Republicans to sign off on the plan without making too many changes so as to make it impossible to pass when it comes back to the House. This complicated game of legislative sudoku will require…

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Senate Democrats blocked a resolution to overturn a Biden administration regulation hampering domestic energy production Tuesday afternoon. Senators voted 54-to-42 to defeat the resolution. Three Senate Democrats—Catherine Cortez-Masto and Jacky Rosen of Nevada and John Hickenlooper of Colorado—joined with Republicans to vote “yes” on repealing the Biden administration regulation. Republican Louisiana Sen. John…

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A coalition of conservative organizations, led by a think tank founded by former Vice President Mike Pence, is warning Congress against using “gimmicks” to cut spending. The coalition, led by Advancing American Freedom, praises Congress’ efforts to cut spending, but urges it to make cuts that will last. “We stand ready to work…

While public-sector unions file lawsuits to block President Donald Trump’s reforms to the bureaucracy, federal government workers are getting paid by the taxpayer for time they spend doing work for those very same unions. The little-known practice of “official time” allows bureaucrats to bill the taxpayer for hours they spend doing work for the union….

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Senate Republicans blocked nearly 30 amendments from Democrats intended to derail the upper chamber’s budget blueprint to fund President Donald Trump’s border security agenda during an overnight session that concluded early Friday morning. The Senate took the first step in unlocking more than $340 billion in spending to fund the president’s border security…