Speaking to reporters, Thune laid out the next steps toward a potential end to the shutdown. The House-passed continuing ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said Monday he is “optimistic” a deal to end the more than four-week shutdown ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s (R-S.D.) support for keeping the 60-vote threshold for passing legislation through the ...

Democrats are working to balance their health care demands and find solutions for SNAP, with Democratic Sen. Ben Ray Luján on ...

Senate Democrats appear to be taking a closer look Wednesday at a Republican plan to reopen the government, Sen. John Thune.

S.D., argued that the best way to ensure Americans don't go without food benefits and that federal workers are paid is to ...

Tom Emmer blames Chuck Schumer for blocking government reopening efforts as shutdown enters day 30. Political stalemate ...

If the Senate had approved the House-passed short-term government funding bill on or before the beginning of the shutdown, it ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said Republican leadership staff is reviewing “protocol” about the possibility of ...

The standoff over the government shutdown is now at Day 34, one day away from becoming the longest in history. CBS News ...

Thune said the Nov. 21 funding date set by a House-passed bill, which has failed in the Senate 13 times, will need to be extended into January.