Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said on Monday that he is “optimistic” lawmakers can strike a deal to reopen the ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said Monday he is “optimistic” a deal to end the more than four-week shutdown could be reached by the end of this week. Both Democrats and ...

If the Senate had approved the House-passed short-term government funding bill on or before the beginning of the shutdown, it would have extended the funding deadline for seven weeks -- until Nov. 21 ...

Bravo to Senate Majority Leader John Thune and other Republican senators for refusing to even consider President Trump’s demand to get rid of the filibuster that protects the rights of the ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune has once again distanced himself from President Donald Trump’s Health Secretary, telling MSNBC’s Ali Vitali that he if he were a woman, he “wouldn’t be taking advice” ...

In the nine months since John Thune became Senate majority leader, the South Dakota Republican has held his party together again and again on tough votes to move President Donald Trump’s agenda ...

Federal law mandates that federal employees get back pay after shutdowns end. Senate Majority Leader John Thune told ABC News on Wednesday that the thousands of furloughed federal workers will get ...

FIRST ON FOX: As the government shutdown nears its fourth week, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., has no intention of giving in to what Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., wants. On ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he has offered the Democratic leadership a vote on extending the Obamacare tax credits that are about to expire—if they get behind reopening the federal ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune told ABC News on Wednesday that the thousands of furloughed federal workers will get back pay when the government shutdown ends. However, he would not say whether he ...

Senate Democrats will soon have their eighth and final chance to pass their version of a short-term funding bill to reopen the government, as GOP leaders will no longer allow votes on what they say is ...