The Testing of John Thune
The low-drama South Dakotan has arrived at the apex of power in the Senate just as Donald Trump is exerting his own executive authority. Will Thune draw a line?
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Thune's risky to-do list
Senate Majority Leader John Thune's (R-S.D.) tricky month keeps getting trickier. Why it matters: New debt ceiling fears, GOP ...
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South Dakota Sen. John Thune Elected As New Senate GOP Leader, Succeeding Mitch McConnell
READ: Trump Announces Key White House Senior Staff Appointments The race ended in a tight contest between Thune and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), with Cornyn finishing a close second. Cornyn was ...
Majority Leader Thune: South Dakota paying close attention to tariffs' effects
In an interview on Wednesday with FOX, Senate Majority Leader John Thune said that a large amount of South Dakota’s imports ...
Senate labors to prevent a government shutdown as Democrats divide before the midnight deadline
The Senate approached a key test vote Friday afternoon as lawmakers worked to avoid a partial government shutdown , with ...
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GOP Senate leader nudges Musk to delegate some DOGE decisions to ‘better attuned’ cabinet
including through cutbacks to staff and programs, Thune stressed that “how they go about it matters. Senate Majority Leader John Thune praised DOGE’s efforts but said the agency needs more ...
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Senate Republicans push Trump for debt ceiling plan
Senate Majority Leader John Thune has deputized a folksy Louisiana ... issue during a lunch last month with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles. There, Kennedy told Wiles she and Trump ought ...