Some Republican senators on Capitol Hill, including one of President Trump’s most ardent supporters, have signaled their uneasiness to the sweeping global tariffs that the president announced this week and that sent global markets reeling. Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, warned on Friday that a future where other countries slap retaliatory tariffs on U.S….
Republican Senator Mitch McConnell on Thursday announced that he won’t contest for reelection in 2026. The Senator from Kentucky is the longest-serving Senate party leader in US history. This will leave a vacant Senate seat for Kentucky for the first time in 16 years for Republican leaders. He chose his 83rd birthday to formally announce…
When President Bill Clinton worked with a bipartisan Congress to enact a federal program to guarantee vaccines for poor children, they agreed that the authority over buying shots from drug makers should rest with the health secretary. The bill’s drafters did not consider that an extremely vocal critic of childhood vaccines would emerge as a…