The president-elect isn’t worried about Senate Republicans growing a backbone. They're unlikely to prove him wrong.

A look at the three candidates: Thune, 63, defeated then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle in 2004 after arguing during the campaign that Daschle had lost his South Dakota roots during his years in ...

The future of Donald Trump’s second term in office will be shaped inside a closed room in the United States Senate on ...

President-elect also nominates Tulsi Gabbard and Marco Rubio for senior roles, while Republicans are projected to win House majority.

The mild-mannered South Dakotan and top McConnell ally recently made efforts to patch up his relationship with ...

Donald Trump has won the public embrace of virtually every Republican currently in federal elected office. In private, ...

The new Senate Republican majority is promising to leave the filibuster alone — even if it stands in the way of the Trump ...

Sen. John Thune of South Dakota is one of the most powerful people in Washington that folks outside D.C. have never heard of.

Senate Republicans have selected a new Senate majority leader to succeed Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate party ...

With President-elect Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans winning control of the White House plus both chambers of Congress in the Nov. 5 election, the Democrats will have one important tool for ...

Republicans have clinched the White House and Congress, though with a House majority so slim that it might hamper parts of ...

Senate Republicans returned to Washington for the first time since they secured the Senate majority to determine who will be the new party leader in the chamber.