Suspending or eliminating the Senate’s current defining feature — the filibuster — is something no Republican Senate leader has backed in decades. Thune, a lifelong institutionalist, is having none of it.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government shutdown has entered its 36th day, breaking the record as the longest ever and disrupting the lives of millions of Americans with federal program cuts, flight delays and federal workers nationwide left without paychecks.

Tuesday’s Campaign Round-Up, 11.4.25: Even now, Trump still won’t say Earle-Sears’ name Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country. Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.

Donald Trump’s approval rating has fallen to its lowest point of his second term. An Emerson College poll of 1,000 registered voters shows that 41 percent approve of the president’s job performance, while 49 percent disapprove.

The Liberty Justice Center led by Sara Albrecht is better known for backing right-leaning causes, but it filed the tariff case that will be heard by the Supreme Court this week.

There was no lost love between the two Republicans, but both used a similar political playbook to push their agenda.

President Donald Trump knows he’s losing the politics of the government shutdown so far. But that’s not making him any more inclined to give ground on the Democratic demands that could bring the standoff to a swift end.

"Any restraint Trump showed in profiting off the presidency during his first term has vanished in his second," wrote Forbes while reporting on the story