Tag Archives: Mike Rounds

The Washington Examiner reports: Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) has committed to backing his fellow Republican colleague Tim Scott (R-SC) as he prepares to launch a run for the White House in 2024. Rounds has offered effusive praise for the South Carolina senator in recent days and on Wednesday revealed his endorsement in an interview with the Washington Examiner. “I think …

ABC News reports: Sen. Mike Rounds on Sunday rejected former President Donald Trump’s debunked election claims, expressing confidence that the 2020 election was “as fair as we’ve seen.” The South Dakota Republican — who was easily reelected to a second term in the Senate in 2020 — said during an interview on ABC’s “This Week” that the dozens of investigations …

The New York Times reports: The Senate took a major step early on Wednesday toward enacting a sweeping expansion of the nation’s social safety net, approving a $3.5 trillion budget blueprint along party lines that would allow Democrats to fund climate change, health care and education measures while increasing taxes on wealthy people and corporations. After an unusual bipartisan approval …

The Hill reports: Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) tweeted a photo of a statue of himself holding a gun on Thursday, addressing President Biden directly and daring him to “come and take it” amid a Democratic push for new gun control legislation. “Careful, she bites too,” Rounds said in the tweet accompanying the photo, which shows a dog at the statue’s …

“Most of us are have a concern anytime you have a president who is trying to work through some very personal matters. I honestly think this president loves his family, and I think it has as much to do with trying not to have public discussions about something that is, for him, a private matter that he didn’t want to …