Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), who ran for majority leader explicitly as a Trump lieutenant, made it plain he’d do whatever the new ...

President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday that he would appoint Doug Collins to lead the Veterans Affairs Department. Here are five things to know about the former Republican congressman from ...

Former Georgia representative and veteran Doug Collins has been tapped by president-elect Donald Trump to lead the Veterans ...

Donald Trump will begin his second term as president the same way he began his first—with Republicans controlling both the ...

S.D., became the next Senate majority leader after two rounds of voting, taking the reins of the party from the longest ...

Thune, of South Dakota, beat out Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Rick Scott of Florida in a secret ballot election to replace Mitch McConnell.

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 ...

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

The Kentucky stalwart, 82, has been the GOP leader in the Senate since 2007. Although the men viscerally dislike one another — McConnell was booed at Trump’s 2024 convention — McConnell and Trump were ...

Thune, currently the Senate GOP minority whip, will replace Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell as the chamber's GOP leader, who ...

The election of Republican Sen. John Thune of South Dakota as the next leader of his party in the chamber – putting him on ...