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The White House has indicated a desire to slash 37 percent of funding from the budget of the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, which currently has a combined budget of just over $50 billion.

Tuesday on Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said President Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts to State Department funding would “probably not” pass in the Senate. When asked if the Senate could approve the budget that slashes state park

Enough Republicans to crush the effort in the U.S. Senate announced on Monday evening they oppose any effort by congressional GOP leadership to only partially repeal Obamacare, scuttling House Speaker Paul Ryan’s plans to kick the can down the road again.

So far, the Senate has confirmed 14 of the 549 senior federal positions that President Trump needs to run the government and who need Senate confirmation—Cabinet secretaries and people who run the departments, bureaus, agencies and the rest of the government. The rest of the government is being run by career bureaucrats and a few Obama holdovers.

The Senate confirmed Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to be the next administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, 52-46, on the Friday before Congress leaves for a week-long Presidents Day recess.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held talks with senior congressional figures on a range of Middle East security issues Wednesday, hours after meeting with US President Donald Trump.

A Washington Post opinion piece written by Paul Waldman claims the Senate vote to repeal the Social Security gun ban equals Republicans arming the mentally ill.

The successful confirmation of President Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees continued when senators voted 53-to-47 to confirm Steven Mnuchin as Treasury Secretary Monday.

Reebok has once again banked on political controversy by taking Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s words, which he used to silence Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) during her rebuke of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) in his attorney general confirmation hearing, and placed them on a woman’s T-shirt in support of Warren.

Wednesday at Los Angeles International Airport, TMZ caught up with feminist activist Gloria Steinem who said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) days were “numbered” for invoking Rule 19 against Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on the floor of the U.S.

Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT), the senator that gaveled down Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) for her attacks on Jeff Sessions in violation of the rules while presiding over U.S. Senate, argued the action was

Senators confirmed President Donald Trump’s Attorney General-designate Sen. Jeff Sessions (R.-Ala.) 52-to-47-to-1, with Sen. Joseph Manchin (D.-W.V.) crossing the aisle and the nominee himself voting present.

Wednesday on MSNBC, discussing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) invoking Rule 19 to stop Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) while reading a letter by Coretta Scott King on the Senate floor Tuesday night, former DNC chair and former Gov. Howard

Wednesday on MSNBC, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) discussed being reprimanded on the Senate floor Tuesday for her comments against President Donald Trump’s Attorney General nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL). Several times, MSNBC political correspondent Kasie Hunt asked Sen.Warren if Senate

Tuesday night on the U.S. Senate floor, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who was speaking out against Attorney General designee Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), was shut down by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for an apparent violation of Senate rules.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he would not spend federal funds investigating what President Trump says is “massive voter fraud in the 2016 presidential election.”

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” when asked about President Donald Trump’s tweet calling the judge who temporarily halted his executive order restricting travel from seven Muslim-majority countries a “so-called judge,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he

President Donald Trump wasted no time advising the Senate to ignore a Democratic filibuster on his Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch.

Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” while discussing President Donald Trump calling on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to “go nuclear” by ending the 60-vote requirement to confirm Supreme Court nominees for Judge Neil Gorsuch, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” while discussing President Donald Trump executive order halting immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries to the United States, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said, “the extent they’re trying to improve the vetting process, I think

PHILADELPHIA – The chairman of the Senate Republican Conference told reporters Wednesday at the joint retreat for GOP senators and congressmen in Philadelphia that Republicans will overcome Democratic opposition to President Donald J. Trump filling the vacant seat on the Supreme Court.

Elaine Chao, Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Transportation, could collect up to $5 million in Wells Fargo preferred stock after assuming her new role in the Trump administration.

The senate passed the continuing resolution, S. Con.Res. 3, that tears away the fees, taxes and subsidies from the 201o Patient Protection and Affordable Cart Act, Obamacare, shortly after 1:25 Thursday morning, 51-to-48.

Senate Republicans are set to formally repeal the tax and spend portions of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act before the end of the week, via a budget reconciliation resolution dubbed “S.Con.Res.3.”

Key members of the Senate are speaking highly of President-elect Trump’s choice for Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, even as many analysts anticipate a difficult confirmation hearing.

Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, (R-KY) said President-elect Donald Trump’s hopes to get along with Russia “will be dashed pretty quickly.” McConnell said, “I don’t think it is all that unusual for a new

Ten days before President-elect Donald J. Trump takes over the executive branch, his top cabinet nominees are scheduled to appear on Capitol Hill in front of the appropriate Senate committees before upper chamber votes on whether to confirm them for federal service.

On Thursday, the House of Representatives will vote on a bipartisan resolution condemning United Nations Security Council’s Resolution 2334,which calls Israeli construction in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem “illegal.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and incoming Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) are among 21 senators who have signed onto legislation that rejects the United Nations Security Council’s Resolution 2334, which calls Israeli construction in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem “illegal.”

Wednesday on Capitol Hill during a press conference after meeting with Vice President-elect Mile Pence, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) addressed his colleague Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) saying last night he was confident if President-elect Donald Trump picks

Incoming Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and his fellow Democratic senators will aggressively target eight of President-elect Donald Trump’s “rigged Cabinet” picks, according to a report from the Washington Post.

During an interview on Monday’s “Axe Files” podcast, President Obama “in part, very cynically, somebody like a [Sen.] Mitch McConnell (R-KY), or Roger Ailes at Fox News, I think, specifically mobilized a backlash” to the vision of a unified tolerant

This week on KET’s “One to One,” Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he was surprised by President-elect Donald Trump victory on election night. McConnell said, “I honestly thought we wouldn’t hold the U.S. Senate. I thought we’d come

Now that the Electoral College has met and given the presidency to Donald J. Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has admitted that throughout the campaign, he thought Trump had no chance to win the White House.

The incoming Senate Minority Leader told hosts of TV’s CBS This Morning that he is pleased Sen. Mitch McConnell (R.-Ky.) supports calls for a congressional investigation into possible Russian tampering in the 2016 presidential election, but he does not want it to become political, like what happened with Benghazi.

“Going back to this overall narrative that is in the news right now, I think really clearly what this is, is an attempt to try to delegitimize President-elect Trump’s win,” aide Jason Miller says.