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Republican senator who led the push to end mask mandates on planes and public transport tests positive for COVID-19 for the 3rd time in a year
Sen. Roger Wicker, who had COVID in August 2021 and February 2022, previously told Insider that the…
Bryan Metzger
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GOP war hawks ditch Trump and America First to back Ukraine's 'moral battle' against Putin
Putin's war on Ukraine has snapped GOP hawks to attention, prompting them to drop Trump's isolation…
Warren Rojas
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GOP senator says 'Europeans are a little more willing to submit to rules and laws that are malarkey' than Americans are when it comes to masking
Sen. Roger Wicker, who's had COVID-19 twice, spoke on Tuesday in support of a resolution that would…
Bryan Metzger
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Republican senators say Madison Cawthorn is an outlier after he called Zelenskyy a 'thug' and the Ukrainian government 'incredibly evil'
"When you see a member of Congress say things like this... they are outliers in the largest sense p…
Bryan Metzger
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These 38 GOP senators just voted against protecting contraception. Here's why.
Republicans complained that Democrats were simply holding a show vote. But they also said they were…
Bryan Metzger
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McConnell, unlike some of his GOP colleagues, embraces Biden's decision to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court
McConnell's comments are at odds with Republicans like Sen. Ted Cruz, who called Biden's decision "…
Oma Seddiq
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Mississippi senator announces breakthrough COVID infection as his state leads country in case rates
Sen. Roger Wicker announced through his communications director on Thursday that he had tested posi…
Bryan Metzger
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Manchin spars with GOP senator over the Trump tax cuts, saying they were 'unfairly' tilted for the wealthiest Americans
Manchin went back and forth with GOP Sen. Roger Wicker. He also raised new hope of a deal on Presid…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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Republicans are touting benefits of $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill despite voting against it
The package, which included direct payments and funding for state and local governments, did not re…
John L. Dorman
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These 22 GOP senators voted for a $95.3 billion Ukraine and Israel aid package without the controversial border provisions that Republicans have rejected
Unable to reach an agreement on a border deal, some Republican senators opted to move forward with …
Bryan Metzger
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Lindsey Graham blasts the timing of the Biden administration's retaliatory strikes on Iran-linked targets: 'They're not afraid of us'
"The only Iranian we killed in Syria or Iraq is some dumbass that doesn't know to get out of the wa…
John L. Dorman
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The GOP prepares to come up $500 billion on infrastructure after Biden comes down by $600 billion
The Republicans' forthcoming $1 trillion proposal counters Biden's climbdown to $1.7 trillion, but …
Ayelet Sheffey,Joseph Zeballo…
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GOP Sen. Roger Wicker praised funding for restaurants included in the COVID-19 stimulus bill that he voted against
Wicker was part of a bipartisan group of senators who introduced the RESTAURANTS Act, the first ame…
Azmi Haroun
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GOP senators oppose corporate tax hike as a 'red line' and float taxes on drivers to pay for infrastructure
Republicans suggested raising the gas tax or implementing a vehicle mileage tax on electric cars to…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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Top GOP senator says it's 'an impossible sell' for Republicans to strike a deal on an infrastructure package that rolls back Trump tax cuts
Sen. Roger Wicker says Republicans oppose repealing parts of their 2017 tax law. Biden wants to fun…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig
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Enraged congressional Republicans call Biden's reelection bid a sign of the apocalypse. But some of his former GOP colleagues say America can simply do better.
GOP bomb-throwers are making Joe Biden's reelection bid out to be an end-of-days scenario, warning …
Warren Rojas
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Josh Hawley splits Senate GOP over 'duplicative' idea to create a new office tracking US aid to Ukraine
"This is essentially a solution in search of a problem," said the top Republican on the Armed Servi…
Bryan Metzger
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Here are all of the Republican elected officials backing Trump's 2024 campaign
Trump was the first major Republican to announce a 2024 campaign, but a majority of the party has y…
Bryan Metzger,Oma Seddiq
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Here are the 14 Republican senators who may have doomed their bills in the new GOP House by voting for a major spending bill
McCarthy pledged that bills sponsored by GOP senators who backed the omnibus would be "dead on arri…
Bryan Metzger
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Republican Roger Wicker is projected to win Mississippi Senate seat, while the state's special election is headed for a runoff
Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith ran against Democrat Mike Espy, the former US agriculture secretary und…