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The Senate Handed ICE $70 Billion Through 2029 and Left a Slush Fund for Trump's Allies Intact
The Senate Handed ICE $70 Billion Through 2029 and Left a Slush Fund for Trump's Allies Intact
The Senate voted 52-47 just before 5 a.m. to fund ICE and Border Patrol through 2029 while rejecting every attempt to block a $1.776B fund critics say rewards Trump's political... Read more...
Senate Republicans in Open Revolt Over Trump's $1.8 Billion 'Anti-Weaponization' Slush Fund
Senate Republicans in Open Revolt Over Trump's $1.8 Billion 'Anti-Weaponization' Slush Fund
Senate Republicans pulled the vote on Trump's $70 billion ICE bill rather than fund the $1.776 billion DOJ slush fund Trump's own Justice Department invented for him in a settlement... Read more...
Senate Republicans Sneak $1 Billion for Trump's Ballroom Into a $72 Billion Immigration Bill
Senate Republicans Sneak $1 Billion for Trump's Ballroom Into a $72 Billion Immigration Bill
Senate Republicans tucked $1 billion for Trump's White House ballroom into a $72 billion immigration bill. The ballroom was supposed to be privately funded. Read more...
Three GOP Senators Want You to Pay $332 Million for Trump's "Privately Funded" Ballroom
Three GOP Senators Want You to Pay $332 Million for Trump's "Privately Funded" Ballroom
Three GOP senators introduced a bill to route $332 million in taxpayer money toward Trump's White House ballroom, a project the White House spent months calling "privately funded." Read more...
Trump Has 5 Days to End His Unauthorized Iran War. The Senate Just Made Sure He Won't.
Trump Has 5 Days to End His Unauthorized Iran War. The Senate Just Made Sure He Won't.
Trump launched airstrikes against Iran on March 2 without a single congressional vote. The War Powers Act gives Congress 60 days to approve or end the conflict. That deadline hits... Read more...
Senate Republicans Quietly Killed Trump's Own Voting Bill. Even They Thought It Went Too Far.
Senate Republicans Quietly Killed Trump's Own Voting Bill. Even They Thought It Went Too Far.
Senate Republicans buried Trump's SAVE America Act voting bill with no floor vote. They couldn't get their own senators to support a voter suppression bill heading into 2026 midterms. Read more...
50 Senators Voted to Cut Your Medicaid. Just 2 Republicans Said No.
50 Senators Voted to Cut Your Medicaid. Just 2 Republicans Said No.
The Senate passed its budget resolution 50-48 on April 23, 2026, green-lighting a process that will cut Medicaid, SNAP, and other safety net programs to fund a $70 billion expansion... Read more...
The 7 Senate Democrats Who Voted to Keep Arming Israel
The 7 Senate Democrats Who Voted to Keep Arming Israel
Seven Senate Democrats voted with Republicans to block a measure halting $295 million in arms sales to Israel. Forty of their colleagues voted to block the sale. Schumer was among... Read more...
Q1 2026 Passed. The Stock Trading Ban Didn't. Here's Who Killed It.
Q1 2026 Passed. The Stock Trading Ban Didn't. Here's Who Killed It.
Senate leaders promised a stock trading ban vote by Q1 2026. The deadline passed, Congress went on recess, and the bill died. At least 10 senators hold committee-overlap stock positions.... Read more...
Senate Rejects Iran War Powers for 4th Time. Fetterman Breaks Democratic Ranks.
Senate Rejects Iran War Powers for 4th Time. Fetterman Breaks Democratic Ranks.
The Senate voted 47-52 to block an Iran war powers resolution for the fourth time in 2026. Rand Paul voted yes. John Fetterman voted no. Republicans continue to let an... Read more...
Fetterman Sponsors a Stock Ban. His Kid Just Bought $6B Chip Stock.
Fetterman Sponsors a Stock Ban. His Kid Just Bought $6B Chip Stock.
Sen. John Fetterman keeps co-sponsoring bills to ban lawmakers and their families from owning individual stocks. Then on April 3, 2026, his household disclosed a child's purchase of Micron Technology... Read more...
Senators Are Trading Stocks In Industries Their Own Committees Regulate.
Senators Are Trading Stocks In Industries Their Own Committees Regulate.
In February 2026, CNN published an analysis that should have ended several Senate careers. It didn't. The finding was simple. Multiple U.S. senators own stock in the exact industries their... Read more...