U.S. Senate News
This section focuses on the upper chamber of Congress, from major policy debates to confirmation hearings. The Daily Signal provides a conservative look at Senate priorities.
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Gov. Andy Beshear’s Urgent Blast to McConnell for Neglecting His Duty
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has spent the week hounding Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. to do “the bare minimum” and go on camera to prove he is alive. McConnell’s unexplained absence undermines the work he’s done as senator, Beshear said in a SiriusXM podcast yesterday. “I don’t think it’s a positive legacy, but I know he… -
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Where Each Senate Republican Stands on the SAVE Act
Ahead of the August recess, Senate Republicans remain divided over how to proceed with the SAVE America Act, legislation championed by President Donald Trump that aims to ban mail-in ballots and require identification and proof of citizenship for voters. In response to a Daily Signal questionnaire sent to all Republican Senate offices, staunch allies of… -
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Voter Perception Leans Toward El-Sayed After ‘Abolish ICE’ Comment During Debate
Abdul El-Sayed is leading Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., by 15 points ahead of next week’s Democrat primary for the open Senate seat, according to a new poll, marking a sharp rise in support for the progressive candidate after Tuesday night’s Democrat debate. An Emerson College Polling/WLNS/WOODTV survey released Thursday showed El-Sayed handily defeating Stevens in… -
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SCOOP: The New Ban Hawley Wants After Fauci’s Senate Appearance
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is set to announce legislation to bar all federal employees from soliciting cash prizes while they are in office. The announcement follows the senator grilling Dr. Anthony Fauci about the millions of dollars he pocketed while allegedly contributing to the spread and cover-up of the COVID-19 pandemic. “No federal bureaucrat should… -
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Trump Threatens to Pull Blanche Nomination
Amid weeks of Senate GOP infighting to confirm Todd Blanche, President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, the president is now threatening to postpone the nomination until problem senators are out of office in 2027. “I have no objection to temporarily withdrawing Todd’s name, if they do not do the right thing, and putting him… -
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Fauci’s Downfall Reveals the Danger of Rule by ‘Experts’
The rise and fall of Fauci is one of the great political lessons of our time about the folly and destructiveness of rule by so-called expertise. On Wednesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in his appearance before… -
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Fauci May Have Pleaded the 5th, but the GOP Won’t Stop Until It Has the Truth on COVID-19
Chairman Rand Paul, R-Ky., and the Senate Homeland Security Committee put Dr. Anthony Fauci on center stage Wednesday morning. Republican senators hit him with three hours of questioning about his alleged part in the spread and cover-up of the COVID-19 virus. Over 100 times, Fauci stayed silent, invoking the Fifth Amendment. Republican committee members claimed… -
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Fauci’s Return Is a Timely Reminder Liberty Requires Eternal Vigilance
Anthony Fauci, prime architect of government tyranny during COVID-19, made a spluttering return to Capitol Hill. A far cry from the rockstar persona he cultivated during the pandemic, Fauci appeared deflated as his authoritarianism was laid bare before a furious American people. But though Fauci has been appropriately marked as a tyrant, his domineering ilk… -
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Ohio’s Bernie Moreno Shames Fauci During Senate Hearing
Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, appeared before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on Wednesday. And offered nothing. Despite having been granted a pardon in January 2025 by then-outgoing President Joe Biden, Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment throughout the entire hearing, a total… -
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Ossoff No Moderate Democrat, Aligned With DSA, Collins Says
Sen. Jon Ossoff presents himself as a typical Democrat out on the campaign trail, but his Republican opponent and some political analysts say he’s closer to a Democratic Socialists of America dream candidate. Since being elected in 2021, Ossoff has sided with the democratic socialists in more ways than one, threatening to undermine the very… -
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Committee Could Hold Fauci in Contempt of Congress, Paul Warns
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination on Wednesday as he appeared before the Senate Homeland Security Committee. The committee chairman, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has accused Fauci of knowingly being involved in funding controversial gain-of-function reasearch in China before… -
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Dem Senate Debate Devolves Into Campaign Funding Finger Pointing
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., went head-to-head in the second and final Michigan Democratic Senate primary debate on Monday night. While Michigan voters may have hoped to learn the policy differences between the two Democrats, what they got instead was finger pointing about campaign funding and hateful speech. “Well, I don’t think… -
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‘Pontiac Platner’: Fetterman Responds to El-Sayed ‘Ogre on a Pike’ Remark
“I’d rather be Senator Shrek than Pontiac Platner any day,” Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., said in response to Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed telling donors he’d be happy to see Fetterman primaried, putting one “ogre on a pike.” Fetterman’s response tied the radical El-Sayed to the Nazi-tattooed Graham Platner, who had been Maine’s Democratic nominee… -
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Moderate GOP Senators Try to Block Shutdown of Dept. of Ed
Moderate Republicans in the Senate Committee on Health, Education and Pensions have introduced two bills that would prohibit outsourcing certain education programs from the U.S. Department of Education to other federal agencies, blocking a complete shutdown of the federal agency. Under bill S. 5046, sponsored by Sens. Tim Kaine, D-Va., Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Lisa… -
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Will Apathy Cost Ossoff His Senate Seat? New Polling Shows Collins in Lead Among Older Voters
A recent poll on Georgia elections shows Rep. Mike Collins leads Sen. Jon Ossoff among older voters in the race for U.S. Senate. Will votes by older Georgians cost the incumbent senator his job? In a poll conducted July 13-16 by Fabrizio Ward and Impact Research for AARP, Collins leads voters over the age of… -
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Senate Leadership Begs Colleagues to Deflect on SAVE America Act
The Senate Republican Conference, chaired by Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and co-chaired by James Lankford, R-Okla., sent an internal communication to Senate Republicans urging them to deflect any and all media questions about the SAVE America Act, according to a document obtained by the Daily Signal. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, described the communication in a… -
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Trump Talks Auto Industry, Rallies for Republican Candidates
The American auto industry is protected and thriving—and that’s thanks to Republicans in Congress doing their job, President Donald Trump said in a rally on July 27. Trump spoke at the General Motors facility in Milford, Michigan on Monday ahead of the Senate primary debate to come later that evening. The president emphasized that America… -
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The Filibuster: An Accident Turned Into Tradition
The filibuster is unconstitutional. Our Founding Fathers spoke against requiring a supermajority threshold to pass regular measures in Congress, yet the erroneous practice continues today via the filibuster. Current Senate practice reaches beyond our Founders’ original plan that a supermajority vote was only to be used for the five instances listed in the Constitution and… -
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Trump, GOP Senators Lash Out at Thune for Placing 6-Week Recess Over SAVE America Act
Several prominent Senate Republicans have joined President Donald Trump in pressuring Senate Majority Leader John Thune to cancel the Senate’s August recess to pass the SAVE America Act, the voter-integrity legislation championed by the president. The legislation aims to prevent noncitizens from voting. As of Monday morning, Sens. Ashley Moody, R-Fla., Rick Scott, R-Fla., Mike… -
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Senate Big Tech Warriors, It’s Time to Confirm Adam Candeub
President Donald Trump is putting America First fighters in charge of the agencies that actually run this country, and his pick last week to lead the Department of Justice Antitrust Division is no exception. Meet Adam Candeub: the guy who helped write the Project 2025 playbook for reining in Big Tech and who has spent his career going after…