Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) is calling on the House and White House to follow the Senate’s lead and ban government officials from placing bets on prediction markets, which he says poses a serious national security risk. The Democratic leader noted that 16 accounts made more than $100,000 each by correctly predicting a U.S....

Senate Republicans say the dysfunction in the House is becoming a liability for the broader GOP brand ahead of this year’s midterm elections, warning that if Congress can’t break through legislative gridlock the party’s candidates will pay a severe political price in November. Republican senators were dumbfounded by their House brethren’s refusal to pass a...

A group of Senate Democrats are questioning Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) recruiting and broader political strategy heading into the 2026 midterm election after his prize recruit in Maine, Gov. Janet Mills (D), announced Thursday she would drop her bid to unseat Sen. Susan Collins (R). Several Democratic senators who spoke to The Hill...

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) made it clear that he’s not thrilled with Graham Platner (D) becoming the presumptive Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, declaring that “Republicans f‑‑‑ing love him” because of his liberal policy positions and controversial statements. “Democrats really, really like Platner in Maine but the Republicans f‑‑‑ing love him,” Fetterman said when asked...

Centrist Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Thursday broke ranks with Republican leaders and most GOP colleagues by voting for a war powers resolution sponsored by Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) to halt military actions against Iran, the first Republican senator to change her position on curtailing President Trump’s military authority. Collins joined Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), the conservative stalwart, and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a hero to libertarians, got into a testy spat on the Senate floor when Cruz objected to Paul’s routine request for unanimous consent to transfer a few acres of federal land to a local Boys & Girls Club and the fight spiraled into...

Senators in both parties say the Supreme Court has roiled the political landscape ahead of the midterm elections by effectively striking down majority-minority House districts as unconstitutional racial gerrymandering. Democrats vented their rage over a ruling they said would return the nation to the Jim Crow-era policies of the 1950s and early '60s, when Black...

Senate Republicans aren’t in the mood to vote on legislation to greenlight President Trump’s controversial plan to build a 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom, as some GOP lawmakers see it as a bad political move in the current political climate, especially if it would require taxpayer funding. Republican senators generally support Trump’s call for the construction...

Former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), who now chairs the powerful Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, is taking the Pentagon to task for sitting on $400 million in military aid to Ukraine authorized by Congress. And he is putting the spotlight on Elbridge Colby, the undersecretary of defense for policy, as the most likely obstacle...

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) is pushing back on a proposal to spend as much as $400 million in taxpayer money to build a 90,000-square-foot ballroom at the White House, arguing that Congress needs to rein in its deficit spending at a time of historically high national debt. Scott told NBC News on Monday evening that...

Tensions between Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) are escalating after Saturday’s shooting at the Washington Hilton put new focus on a stalled Homeland Security funding bill passed by the Senate last month. Members of the Senate Republican leadership team said the assassination attempt against President Trump should spur House...

A group of Senate Republicans led by Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) are pushing a bill to fund the construction of a secure 90,000-square-foot ballroom at the White House and say the project is essential to national security after a gunman tried to storm the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on Saturday.  Graham and his allies say...