Press Releases
Thune Joins Shannon Bream on Fox News Sunday
Click here to watch the video. WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today joined Shannon Bream on Fox News Sunday. On Senate Republicans’ tax priorities: “We’re increasing the Child Tax Credit, and if the Democrats had their way, at the end of the year … the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act would expire, and you would have the Child Tax Credit cut in half for working families. So we’re not only going to keep it from getting cut in half, we’re going to increase it. “No tax o… Continue Reading
06.13.25
Thune Joins Guy Benson on Fox News Radio
Click here to watch the video. WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) joined Guy Benson on Fox News Radio. On providing resources to secure the southern border: “[Y]ou can’t get around what's happening within L.A. today and what’s happened at the border for the last four years. I mean, they are inextricably linked. And it’s created this environment of lawlessness … we are a nation of laws and … I think that’s what this conversation has been about. “The president ran on … Continue Reading
06.12.25
Thune Statement on Israeli Airstrikes in Iran
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today issued the following statement: “For too long, the mullahs in Iran have publicly aspired to wipe the only democracy in the Middle East off the face of the map via any means possible: funding and arming terror groups on Israel’s borders, choking off international sea lanes, and multiple barrages of missiles and drones. Just today, Iran was found once again to be in violation of its nuclear non-proliferation obligations, which is … Continue Reading
06.11.25
Thune Joins The Will Cain Show on Fox News
Click here to watch the video. WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today joined The Will Cain Show on Fox News. On strengthening Medicaid: “[T]he provider tax is a good example of something that’s been abused, and it’s been abused particularly by big states like New York and California. It is a racket. I mean, they figured out how to game it. They leverage it to get more federal money - and in the case of California, to cover illegal immigrants. [S]o that’s obviously … Continue Reading
06.10.25
Thune: Senate Republicans’ Bill to Create a Strong, Prosperous America
Click here to watch the video. WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today spoke at a press conference with Senate Republican leadership: Thune’s remarks below (as delivered): “Good afternoon, everyone. “We are making great progress on our Republican reconciliation bill that will lead to a stronger and safer America. “And those two are intertwined, because you can’t have a strong and safe America - you can’t have a prosperous America unless you have a safe America. “… Continue Reading
06.04.25
Thune Joins America’s Newsroom on Fox News
Click here or on the picture to watch the video. WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today joined America’s Newsroom on Fox News. On pro-growth policies: “[E]verybody’s going to come to different conclusions about this [bill], but a lot of people are making evaluations of this bill based upon a static scoring model used by Washington, D.C., scorekeepers that missed the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act economic growth by 5.4 percent, underestimated revenue by $1.5 trillion, … Continue Reading
06.03.25
Thune: Senate Republicans Keep Up the Momentum
Click here to watch the video. WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today spoke at a press conference with Senate Republican leadership: Thune’s remarks below (as delivered): “Good afternoon, everyone. “I think, as everybody knows, the Senate Republicans are prepared to do our part on reconciliation. “We’re anxious to have the ball and to run with it. “We think that the bill, as passed by the House, and with the … opportunity the Senate has to make some modification… Continue Reading
06.03.25
Thune Joins The Brian Kilmeade Show on Fox Radio
Click here to watch the video. WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today joined The Brian Kilmeade Show on Fox Radio. On pro-growth policies: “[W]hen you have growth in the economy, government revenues go up. And then if you start bending the spending curve down in the right direction, you can start getting to where it’s closer to balance … “[T]he question I think your people want to know is, will it add to the deficit? We are running deficits, and the deficits right… Continue Reading
05.20.25
Thune: Senate to End Biden’s California EV Mandate
Click here to watch the video. WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today spoke at a press conference with Senate Republican leadership: Thune’s remarks below (as delivered): “Most of the action this week is in the House of Representatives, but the Senate will be doing some important things this week. “We are going to vote this week to do away with the Biden California mandate, which was an attempt by the Biden administration to impose [an] electric vehicle mandate ac… Continue Reading
05.13.25
Thune: Democrats’ Hypocrisy Knows No Bounds
Click here to watch the video. WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today spoke at a press conference with Senate Republican leadership: Thune’s remarks below (as delivered): “This week, we should be on the GENIUS bill, which is the stablecoin bill. “As most of you know, we had a vote [on] cloture on the motion to proceed last week, which every single Democrat, every single Democrat, voted against - in spite of the fact that there were five Democrats who voted for tha… Continue Reading
05.11.25
Thune Joins My View with Lara Trump
Click here to watch the video. WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) joined Fox News’ My View with Lara Trump. On President Trump’s influence in Washington: “He’s enormously influential in both the House and the Senate, and when it comes time for tough votes. “And you know, sometimes there’s a certain art form to getting everybody pulling in the same direction, but he has a gift for that and obviously, when necessary, the speaker deploys him. “We deploy him in tal… Continue Reading
05.09.25
Thune Joins Fox and Friends
Click here to watch the video. WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today joined Brian Kilmeade, Ainsley Earhardt, and Lawrence Jones on Fox News’ Fox and Friends. On budget reconciliation: “[Republicans] don’t want to raise taxes on anybody … we’re about lowering taxes on Americans. But as the House … looks at how to accomplish the president’s big, beautiful bill, they’ve got to figure out how to wedge all the things the president wants to do, extension of existing… Continue Reading
05.09.25
Thune Joins Squawk Box
Click here or on the picture to watch the video. WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today joined Joe Kernen, Becky Quick, and Andrew Ross Sorkin on CNBC’s Squawk Box. On tax permanency: “[If] you look at what is being proposed, and what I would argue is the thing that’s different is permanence … If you do this on a permanent basis, Tax Foundation, for example, says you get another 1.8 percent GDP growth out of that, and that’s a huge impact on government revenues. So… Continue Reading
05.06.25
Thune: Republicans Fighting to Prevent Democrats’ Small Business Tax Hike
Click here to watch the video. WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today spoke at a press conference with Senate Republican leadership: Thune’s remarks below (as delivered): “Well, good afternoon, everyone. “I think, as everybody knows, this is Small Business Week, which is the week when we celebrate our nation’s small businesses, which do represent the backbone of our economy. “If you look at the definition, 99 percent of the businesses in this country are consider… Continue Reading
05.05.25
Thune Joins Larry Kudlow on Fox Business
Click here to watch the video. WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today joined Larry Kudlow on Fox Business. On tax permanency: “[W]e want to make sure that we get the 2017 TCJA made permanent. Particularly, you get all those pro-growth provisions … bonus depreciation and interest deductibility and R&D expensing - things that … we had in the … 2017 bill.” […] “… I think that … tax policy, particularly on the business side, ought to be about growth. There ought … Continue Reading
04.30.25
Thune Joins Sean Hannity on Fox News
Click here or on the picture to watch the video. WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) joined Sean Hannity on Fox News. On Senate Republicans’ agenda: “Well, we’ve got a lot to do, and the president’s laid out an agenda. We’re all working together on it. I just came out of a meeting with Speaker Johnson and his team, and as we work on the … so-called ‘big, beautiful bill,’ it’s going to deliver in a lot of ways for the American people. “You talked about it: tax relief,… Continue Reading
04.29.25
Thune on President Trump’s First 100 Days: Promises Made, Promises Kept
Click here or on the picture to watch the video. WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today spoke at a press conference with Senate Republican leadership: Thune’s remarks below (as delivered): “Good afternoon. “Today marks the 100th day of the Trump presidency, and I think it has been a very historic 100 days. “And in my view, [it] could be described as promises made and promises kept. “And if you look right across the board, all the things the president campaigned … Continue Reading
04.21.25
Thune Statement on Pope Francis
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today released the following statement: “Pope Francis led a life of faithful witness to the Gospel,” said Thune. “He dedicated himself to spreading the Good News with joy, and he will be remembered as a humble servant of God and a man of great compassion for those in need. May he rest in peace and receive his reward.” … Continue Reading
04.09.25
Thune Joins Sean Hannity on Fox News
Click here to watch the video. WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) joined Sean Hannity on Fox News. On the Senate’s first 100 days of the 119th Congress: “We did get the president’s Cabinet in place, the fastest rate in 20 years. We were in session for 10 consecutive weeks, for the first time in 15 years. And today, we have cast more votes than any Senate going back to the Reagan administration. So people are showing up, they’re doing the work, and we’ve got a lot mor… Continue Reading
04.08.25
Thune Recaps Successful First 100 Days of 119th Congress
Click here or on the picture to watch the video. WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today spoke at a press conference with Senate Republican leadership: Thune’s remarks below (as delivered): “Well, good afternoon. “We are wrapping up our first 100 days here in the United States Senate, and I couldn’t be prouder of what our colleagues have accomplished, the things that we’ve gotten done. “We have moved the president’s nominees through the Senate in the fastest … pac… Continue Reading
