The U.S. Senate Banking Committee voted Thursday to advance the nomination of Jonathan McKernan to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The bill does not link tariffs to fentanyl smuggling but seeks expanded authority to sanction state-owned or state-controlled Chinese entities, including banks, involved in financing foreign opioid trafficking. The measure also would have the U.S. government track more chemicals that can be used to make methamphetamines.

Republicans on the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs were stumped when asked about massive staffing cuts coming for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Government Executive first reported late Tuesday that President Donald Trump planned to lay off as many as 83,

Sen. Dick Durbin alleges the Trump loyalist abused power. Martin says Durbin “weaponized” D.C.’s legal disciplinary system against Trump’s lawyers.

More than 100 high schoolers are visiting Washington, D.C., while attending the United States Senate Youth program. One student delegate is from Winston-Salem, and she's a junior at Mount Tabor High School.

WASHINGTON, D.C.–The Coast Guard Reauthorization Act of 2025, which would reauthorize over $30 billion for the U.S. Coast Guard Fiscal Years 2025 and 2026, unanimously passed the United States Senate.

The Senate failed to advance a bill to codify a Trump executive order and prevent biological males from playing in girls sports.

Elbridge Colby, President Trump’s pick to serve as the Pentagon’s undersecretary for policy, is facing skepticism from GOP senators concerned about his views on how aggressively to confront Iran

Betty Nguyen of Boston Latin and Evan Cote of Tyngsborough High School represented Massachusetts and were among 100 students who were invited to the event.