#us-senate

#us-senate

The US Senate approved a major government funding package on Friday, after the killings of two US citizens by federal agents in Minneapolis upended spending talks and gave out-of-power rare leverage over Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign. In a 71-29 tally, the Senate overcame last-minute opposition from a handful of Republicans to rally behind a deal the president struck with Democrats, an unusual display of bipartisanship as tensions rise nationally over the presence of ICE in American cities.

She was first elected in 2014 on a pledge to cut government spending with her signature slogan: Make em squeal. As the Republican Party has evolved under President Donald Trump, Ernst has often struggled to strike a balance between GOP voters identifying with Trump's Make America Great Again movement and those who don't. And failed. Miserably, I might add.

Fifteen years ago, in January 2010, Brown, a state senator in Massachusetts, defeated the Democrat Martha Coakley in a special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by the late liberal icon Ted Kennedy.

I'm always looking for ways to pitch in and how to build communities... that doesn't necessarily mean my own run.

A lot of voters from across party lines are tired of feeling like the people in Washington are working for themselves, not the people who elected them.

We're in the fight of our lives, but I'm holding up pretty well, and I'm up for the fight.

Krishnamoorthi emphasized the need for Democrats to improve their brand and acknowledge that many Americans feel the American dream is slipping away.

It's to get aid in. It is absolutely appalling what is happening to innocent Palestinians in Gaza. And there are 14,000 babies, according to the UN, that could die in the next 48 hours if aid is not getting in.