: Sen. Jacky Rosen plans to introduce amendments ahead of Friday night’s ‘Vote-A-Rama’ that would roll back President Donald Trump’s tariffs on certain materials on key tourism partners, likely forcing her Republican colleagues to go on record defending the policy again. 

‘President Trump broke his promise to lower costs, and has enacted reckless tariffs that are jacking up prices even higher for hardworking Nevada families and harming my state’s tourism economy,’ Rosen, D-Nev., told Fox News Digital in an exclusive statement. 

‘Donald Trump may not care if his tariffs raise prices, but I do, and that’s why I’m trying to stop his new national sales tax. Every senator should be on the record: Do you stand with America’s working families who need financial relief, or do you stand with Trump in giving his billionaire buddies even more tax giveaways?’ 

The Nevada Democrat’s amendments include one to stop the administration from levying tariffs on critical construction materials for building houses, and one that would bar Trump from putting across-the-board tariffs on countries with many who visit the U.S.

‘I’ve already heard from Nevadans and Nevada business owners who are worried about how these new tariffs will impact their businesses and livelihoods, including the founder of a small business in Reno. They wrote to me saying, quote, ‘We maintain a small production facility in Reno . . . these duties will force us to raise retail prices by 37 percent, and we don’t believe our customers will accept that. This policy could wipe us out entirely,” Rosen said during her debate time on the floor on Friday.

‘They go on to say, quote, ‘I’m not asking for a favor. I’m asking for leadership that reflects the urgency and reality we face. These tariffs do not bring jobs back. They raise prices, punish small businesses, and put livelihoods at risk, all while making it harder for companies like mine to do what we’ve done for 13 years: create jobs, innovate, and support our families,’’ she went on.

On Thursday, Republicans agreed to a motion that kicked off roughly a day’s worth of debate, before the ‘vote-a-rama’ begins. 

A marathon of amendment votes is now expected to take place at some point on Friday after the debate ends. 

During this process, senators can introduce an unlimited number of amendments, and many are expected to get floor votes. 

The ‘vote-a-rama’ marks movement on Trump’s budget for border funding and extending his hallmark 2017 tax cuts, which Republicans in Congress have long been pursuing. This week, the Senate released its changes to the House’s budget reconciliation resolution, taking a big step forward. 

This amendment to the resolution will get a Senate vote at the end of the ‘vote-a-rama.’ 

The expected budget vote comes after months of disagreement between Republicans in the House and Senate, the former of which sought a reconciliation bill to tackle both the border and taxes, while many in the Senate wanted to split it into two bills. 

Ultimately, House Republicans got what they wanted in a one-bill approach, which Trump blessed. 

Whether Russia is ‘serious’ about achieving a ceasefire in Ukraine should become apparent in a ‘matter of weeks,’ Secretary of State Macro Rubio told reporters Friday.

‘The Russians know our position in terms of wanting to end the war, and we will know from their answers very soon whether they are serious about proceeding with real peace or whether it is a delay tactic,’ Rubio said at NATO headquarters in Brussels. 

Questions are mounting over Moscow’s true interest in engaging with the Trump administration after it rejected a 30-day ceasefire proposed by Ukraine in early March, then refused to agree to a Black Sea ceasefire later that month unless sanctions were lifted.

‘[If] It’s a delay tactic, the president’s not interested in that,’ he added. ‘President Trump is not going to fall into the trap of endless negotiations about negotiations.’

When pressed by reporters, Rubio wouldn’t comment on what conditions Russia has set out in securing a peace deal. 

He did note, though, hat even after direct calls with foreign leaders, official readouts don’t always reflect what was actually discussed. That appeared to be the case after President Donald Trump’s call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, when the White House said Russia had ‘agreed’ to eliminate the use of force in the Black Sea.

But the Kremlin later clarified that any agreement was contingent on the West lifting sanctions.

‘I guess it’s part of the game,’ Rubio said. ‘At the end of the day, what’s going to matter here is whether we’re going to move towards peace or not.’

Rubio reiterated that Ukraine and Russia would both need to make concessions to end the war but declined to say what those should be, insisting those details should emerge through negotiations.

‘Initially, it was important to talk [to the Russians] because we haven’t talked to them in a long time. But now we’ve reached the stage [where] we need to make progress,’ he said, noting it will be ‘hard,’ but he remains ‘optimistic.’

‘There are some promising signs. There are some troubling signs. It’s not going to be easy. No one ever said this would be easy, but we’re going to find out sooner rather than later,’ Rubio told reporters. ‘And let’s just say I’m hopeful. I remain hopeful.’

President Donald Trump has fired the head of the National Security Agency (NSA), a high-level move driven by mounting pressure from conservative allies to purge officials they view as insufficiently loyal to the president’s ‘America First’ agenda.

Gen. Timothy Haugh and civilian Deputy Wendy Noble were let go from their roles as director and deputy director of the NSA. Lt. Gen. William Hartman, who also leads U.S. Cyber Command, will serve as acting director, while Sheila Thomas will take over as deputy.

Hartman previously commanded the Cyber National Mission Force and has served in intelligence, cyberspace operations and infantry roles during deployments around the world. Thomas most recently headed NSA’s cryptologic partnership with the U.K. and served as director of engagement and policy at NSA. 

The shake-up comes as some right-wing figures have turned against members of Trump’s national security team. Far-right provocateur Laura Loomer met with Trump this week to share her ‘research’ on officials she believes should be fired. 

As Loomer pointed out on X, both Haugh and Noble were Biden appointees. She seemingly took credit for the firing, claiming Haugh had ‘no place’ in the Trump administration because he was ‘hand-picked’ by former Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley. 

‘Why would we want an NSA Director who was referred to Biden after being hand selected by Milley,’ Ms. Loomer wrote. ‘Why would we want Milley’s hand picked choice for NSA DIRECTOR? We do not! And he was referred for firing.’

The White House and NSA did not respond when asked if Loomer had influenced the president’s decision. 

Trump also fired several National Security Council (NSC) staffers on Thursday, adding to national security advisor Mike Waltz’s recent woes after he accidentally included The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg in a Signal chat about Houthi strikes.

‘We’re going to let go of people we don’t like, or people we don’t think can do the job, or people who may have loyalties to somebody else,’ Trump told reporters about the firings. He confirmed that NSC members had been fired, but remarked it was not many individuals. 

The NSA shuffle also came after Trump recently let go of C.Q. Brown, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and Adm. Lisa Franchetti, former chief of naval operations. 

The White House has insisted Waltz’s job is not under threat. 

‘As the president has made it very clear, Mike Waltz continues to be an important part of his national security team,’ Trump administration press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the media in brief remarks outside the White House’s press room on Monday afternoon. ‘And this case has been closed here at the White House, as far as we are concerned.’ 

Senior Iranian officials are threatening to ramp up the country’s nuclear program as the Trump administration weighs a possible strike against the regime if Tehran does not come to the table for negotiations.

‘The president should be making the regime sweat, pure and simple,’ Behnam Ben Taleblu, an Iran expert and senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital.

‘This can be done with strict enforcement of maximum pressure sanctions, and a targeted campaign against regime assets in the region – Yemen being a good example now. Washington will also need to add a critical third element to its otherwise economic and military pressure policy. Maximum support for the Iranian people.’

Lisa Daftari, a Middle East expert and editor-in-chief at The Foreign Desk, told Fox News Digital that while diplomacy often demands negotiation, extending any offer to Iran’s regime, even symbolically, risks legitimizing a government that has spent decades terrorizing its own people and funding proxies like Hamas, the Houthis and Hezbollah.

‘This regime thrives on defiance, not dialogue. That has not changed. For over four decades, the mullahs have understood only one language: might,’ Daftari said.

President Donald Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Thursday that it would be better if the U.S. had direct talks with Iran.

‘I think it goes faster, and you can understand the other side a lot better than if you go through intermediaries,’ Trump said. ‘They wanted to use intermediaries. I don’t think that’s necessarily true anymore. I think they’re concerned. I think they feel vulnerable, and I don’t want them to feel that way.’

Trump also threatened to bomb Iran and impose secondary sanctions on Iranian oil if it did not come to the bargaining table over its nuclear program. Although the president said he preferred to make a deal, Trump did not rule out a military option.
 

‘It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before,’ President Trump told NBC News last weekend.

The U.S. expanded its deterrence efforts in the region, deploying additional squadrons of fighter jets, bombers, and predator drones to reinforce defensive air-support capabilities. The U.S. is also sending the USS Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group to the region to join USS Harry S. Truman, which has been in the Middle East to fight against the Houthi’s in Yemen.

Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, responded with threats of his own and said that Iran would respond ‘decisively and immediately’ to any threat issued by the U.S. Iran is still floating the idea of indirect talks, something the administration is reportedly considering.

Taleblu said, ‘Tehran’s counteroffer of indirect talks is the regime’s way of rejecting Trump while leaving the door open for talks that can be used as a shield against a potential preemptive attack.’

The president sent a letter to Khamenei expressing interest in making a deal on the nuclear issue. While increasing its military presence in the region, reports indicate that the Trump administration is considering indirect talks with Iran to curb the expansion of its nuclear program and avoid a direct confrontation.

Experts and observers of the region warn that Iran has used negotiating as a delaying tactic in the past and warn the Trump administration against entering into talks that might further embolden Iran.

‘The Trump administration should impose full pressure on the regime in Iran given how weak the regime has become in the last several years. Indirect talks are the regime’s strategy of buying time so it can live to fight another day,’ Alireza Nader, an independent analyst in Washington, D.C., and expert on Iran, told Fox News Digital.

Nader’s recommendation to Trump is to support the people of Iran and argued that the regime is much weaker than it appears.

‘President Trump really wants a deal. Iran has a chance here to go back and negotiate, keep its civilian nuclear program but make concessions about its size and the duration of a deal,’ Alex Vatanka, senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, told Fox News Digital.

‘Trump is in a dominant position. Republicans in Congress fear him. Nothing can stop him—at least for now. But power is fickle. The longer he’s in the White House, the more vulnerable he may become. Iran shouldn’t wait for that,’ Vatanka added.

In an interview with Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies podcast, ‘The Iran Breakdown,’ former Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said that eventually, Israel will attack Iran’s nuclear facility, with or without the United States, because there is no other choice, according to Lapid.

Ali Larijani, an advisor to the supreme leader, said in an interview that although Iran does not seek a nuclear weapon, Tehran will have no choice but to build a nuclear weapon if the U.S. or Israel strike Iran.

The International Atomic Energy Agency reported in February that Iran has accelerated its nuclear program and has enriched uranium close to weapons-grade levels. 

Danielle Pletka, senior fellow in Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), told Fox News Digital that having additional military assets in the Middle East is sound policy given the threats that the U.S. and its allies face in the region.

For Pletka, the question is, what is the Trump administration looking for?

‘A deal in which the Iranians do not fully get rid of their nuclear weapons program? If so, the president sets the United States up for the risk that Barack Obama inflicted on our allies and ourselves – merely delaying the Iranian nuclear program to a later date,’ Pletka told Fox News Digital.

Pletka said it is strange that President Trump seems to envision a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)-like deal, and that has prompted a lot of criticism on Capitol Hill. 

Trump originally withdrew from JCPOA, also known as the Iran nuclear deal, during his first term in 2018 and reapplied harsh economic sanctions. The Biden administration had initially looked at re-engaging with Iran on the nuclear issue upon taking office, but on-again-off-again talks went nowhere, complicated by Iran’s domestic politics and its role in supporting its terror groups in the region.

The other risk that the president runs, according to AEI’s Pletka, is being perceived as a paper tiger.

‘He threatened Hamas with bombing that he never delivered. Now he’s threatening Iran with military action. But does he really mean it? Or is he just blowing hot air?’ she said.

Pletka said, ‘There is an enormous amount of uncertainty around the president’s intentions, and that uncertainty is an opportunity for the Iranians to exploit.’

The Middle East Institute’s Vatanka said he believed that Trump could claim a potential win he can sell at home and say he got a better deal than President Obama did with the JCPOA, if Iran were to agree to permanently keep its enrichment level to a low level, unlike the expiration dates included in the JCPOA.

A key moderate Democrat is warning his party they are heading the ‘wrong’ way on trade.

Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, was one of the few Democrats to express some optimism at President Donald Trump’s support for tariffs, specifically his move to add a 10% baseline duty to all U.S. imports. 

Golden noted in a brief interview with Fox News Digital on Thursday that he himself proposed legislation for a 10% universal tariff earlier this year and in the previous Congress.

When asked how his stance on tariffs has been received by fellow House Democrats, Golden said, ‘Well, I think that they are moving in the wrong direction when it comes to trade.’

‘I think it’s been a knee-jerk reaction to the president,’ the Maine Democrat explained of the more recent furor.

He said the Democratic Party he joined in his ‘formative years’ was ‘the party that was warning about things like the World Trade Organization or [the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)].’

‘It has kind of, I think, had a sudden movement in the opposite direction, and that’s unfortunate,’ Golden said. ‘You’ve got to look beyond, you know, who the president is…to ask themselves what would be good for rural communities or working-class people, or cities like Detroit, whatever it may be – those who have been hit hardest by the existing trade regime.’

He added, however, ‘I think that this debate has been brewing since the ’90s, so it’s not only about Trump.’

Golden has been known to break from his own party on issues like trade, border security, and notably, former President Joe Biden’s student loan relief efforts.

He won his seat in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District by less than 1% in 2024, while Trump carried the district by 10%.

He said on Wednesday that he was ‘pleased’ Trump’s tariff plan lined up with his own ideas for a universal tax on foreign goods.

‘I’m eager to work with the president to fix the broken ‘free trade’ system that made multinational corporations rich but ruined manufacturing communities across the country. But tariffs must be paired with policies that prioritize American families’ prosperity.’

He pointed out, however, that Trump ‘introduced a number of new tariff policies’ alongside the 10% universal tax, and that he would need time to review the policies in detail before weighing in on them further.

Trump’s plan involves a 10% blanket tariff on all imports into the U.S., as well as reciprocal tariffs as high as nearly 50% on both adversaries and allies.

Golden added, ‘We need to make sure that the new approach benefits working people — that means supporting unions, the trades and apprenticeship programs, cutting regulations that hold back production, unleashing American energy and using tariff revenue to support domestic manufacturers that create good-paying jobs for Americans.’

‘Tariffs are a first step in rewriting a rigged trade system, but they cannot be the last one.’

For arguably the first time in his political career, President Donald Trump is asking his voters to take a big leap of faith regarding his administration’s tariff policy. 

I decided to travel to small-town Maryland and Ohio to try to find out just how much slack Trump voters are willing to cut him amid the uncertainty of this trade policy. What I found is that Trump has a lot more runway to play with before his support may or may not start to crumble.

Cumberland, Md., is a charming and sleepy hamlet near the Pennsylvania border which, like so many in the area, grew up around the railroad, and it shows. Trestles and 19th-century buildings abound, freight trains cut their fearless way right through the small downtown.

There I met Fred and his son Chris, who were eating dinner next to me at a local establishment. Fred’s bright red ‘Trump Was Right About Everything’ hat seemed like a bit of a clue that he had voted for the president, so we got to talking.

‘None,’ Fred told me when I asked if he was starting to have any doubts. The retired Navy veteran was especially pleased by the selection of Pete Hegseth as secretary of the Department of Defense. ‘He’s a serviceman,’ Fred told me. ‘He can handle it.’

I hear that from about nine out of 10 vets I talk to.

Fred’s son Chris, also a Navy vet, was a bit more circumspect. On the subject of tariffs and more broadly inflation, he said, ‘Trump ran on making things cheaper, not more expensive, but I’m still willing to trust him.’

‘Nothing happens overnight and without work,’ came some fatherly advice from Fred.

Now Chris has a point. Trump absolutely ran on imposing tariffs, but it was never clear if that was a negotiating tactic or an overall economic policy. We still don’t really know. Deals could still be cut, but Trump did not run on short-term economic pain, something all of his supporters I talked to admitted, but also accepted.

Later that night, I met four guys in their 30s, who work in the local energy industry, and once again, three of them were entirely on board.

‘I don’t think he has done enough,’ one quipped sarcastically about the avalanche of actions taken by Trump.

Another said Trump’s ac tions have strengthened his support.

‘A couple years ago, I was not politically aligned with either party, but now that Trump has become the president, and Elon is trying to eliminate, with the DOGE, the fraud and the illogical spending that is happening, I am totally for that.’ He added, ‘I am more happy now that I voted for Trump than I was when I voted for Trump.’

About two hours northwest of Cumberland lies tiny Columbiana, Ohio. Unlike the cozy Cumberland nestled in the mountains, Columbiana is a small place more of strip malls than town squares, but not without its own charming haunts to discover.

One of those is Factory 46, a restaurant and bar tucked behind one of the ubiquitous malls, where Joe, in his 20’s who has lived here his whole life, slings the drinks and grub.

There I met another father and son, again in the same industry, this time coal mining, and this time it was the dad who let me ask him a few questions on video. For both of them, removing the tax on overtime was a huge issue.

‘It’s killing the working man,’ the dad told me, and when I asked if he thought Trump could really do it, he absolutely did. He also told me, ‘I’d love to see him bring the coal industry back. Obama took it from us. I can understand gas, we need gas, it’s awesome, but we need both.’ 

The theme of no regrets remained steady for these two, as it did for Joe’s mom, who came in to visit a little while after. 

One thing that became clear, especially in Ohio, is that when Democrats and the media scream about how tariffs will tank the stock market and make foreign goods more expensive, many think our so-called prosperity came at the cost of domestic manufacturing and at the expense of towns like theirs.

The voters in these small towns very much see themselves as the losers in the game of globalism, and they are not too upset about its rules being changed.

Trump’s poll numbers have dipped a bit. He’s about two points underwater, though still higher than he was this time in his first term. And based on my conversations with his supporters this week, I do not expect a sharp decline anytime soon.

No, his people are willing to give Trump time, but make no mistake, in the long run, they are expecting results. 

Dozens of activist and legal groups, elected officials, local jurisdictions and individuals have launched more than 120 lawsuits against the Trump administration since Jan. 20 in response to his more than 90 executive orders, as well as executive proclamations and memos, Fox News Digital found. 

Trump has long been a legal target, which hit a fever pitch during the 2024 election cycle when Trump faced four criminal indictments, including a criminal trial in Manhattan in the spring of 2024 when he was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records. 

Trump has maintained his innocence in the four cases, pointing to them as evidence of lawfare at the hands of Democrats working against his political efforts. 

Upon Trump’s election win in November 2024, state attorneys general, such as New York Attorney General Letitia James, publicly said they would prepare legal battles against the Trump administration for actions they view as illegal or negatively impact residents. 

‘We faced this challenge before, and we used the rule of law to fight back,’ James, who has repeatedly filed suits against Trump, said following his win. ‘And we are prepared to fight back once again because, as the attorney general of this great state, it is my job to protect and defend the rights of New Yorkers and the rule of law. And I will not shrink from that responsibility.’

Just weeks back in the Oval Office, Trump’s administration has been hit with at least 125 lawsuits working to resist his policies. 

Fox News Digital compiled a list of the groups, state attorneys general, cities or states, and individuals who have launched lawsuits against the Trump administration’s executive actions. The list includes the various groups and individuals challenging the Trump administration in court, as well as the executive order or proclamation that sparked the suit. 

1. Jan. 20, 2025: New Hampshire Indonesian Community Support; League of United Latin American Citizens; Make the Road New York (Executive Order: Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship)
2. Jan. 20, 2025: O. Doe; Brazilian Worker Center, Inc.; La Colaborativa (Executive Order: Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship)
3. Jan. 20, 2025: Center for Biological Diversity (Establishing and Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’)
4. Jan. 22, 2025: Make the Road New York (Executive Order: Protecting the American People Against Invasion)
5. Jan. 20, 2025: National Treasury Employees Union (Executive Order: Restoring Accountability to Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce)
6. Jan. 20, 2025: National Security Counselors, Inc. (Executive Order: Establishing and Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency)
7. Jan. 20, 2025: American Public Health Association; American Federation of Teachers; Minority Veterans of America; VoteVets Action Fund; The Center for Auto Safety, Inc.; Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (Executive Order: Establishing and Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’)
8. Jan. 20, 2025: Le v. Trump (Executive Order: Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship)
9. Jan. 21, 2025: State of New Jersey; Commonwealth of Massachusetts; State of California; State of Colorado; State of Connecticut; State of Delaware; District of Columbia; State of Hawai’i; State of Maine; State of Maryland; Attorney General Dana Nessel for the People of Michigan; State of Minnesota; State of Nevada; State of New Mexico; State of New York; State of North Carolina; State of Rhode Island; State of Vermont; State of Wisconsin; City and County of San Francisco (Executive Order: Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship)
10. Jan. 21, 2025: CASA, Inc; Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (​​Executive Order: Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship)
11. Jan. 21, 2025: State of Washington; State of Arizona; State of Illinois; State of Oregon (Executive Order: ​​Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship)
12. Jan. 21. 2025: Delmy Franco Aleman, Cherly Norales Castillo, and Alicia Chavarria Lopez (Executive Order: Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship)
13. Jan. 23, 2025: Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center (Executive Order: Securing Our Borders)
14. Jan. 25, 2025: Organized Communities Against Deportation; Brighton Park Neighborhood Council; Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights; Raise the Floor Alliance (Executive Order: Protecting the American People Against Invasion)
15. Jan. 26, 2025: Maria Moe, transgender federal inmate (Executive Order: Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government)
16. Jan. 27, 2025: Jane Does 1-2 (Executive action on the solicitation of information from career employees)
17. Jan. 27, 2025: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, New England Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, Inc., Adelphi Friends Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, Richmond Friends Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Executive action related to ​​immigration enforcement in places of worship)
18. Jan. 28, 2025: Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (Executive Order: Restoring Accountability to Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce)
19. Jan. 28, 2025: Public Citizen, Inc.; State Democracy Defenders Fund; American Federation of Government Employees (Executive Order: Establishing and Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency)
20. Jan. 28, 2025: State of New York; State of California; State of Illinois; State of Rhode Island; State of New Jersey; Commonwealth of Massachusetts; State of Arizona; State of Colorado; State of Connecticut; State of Delaware; The District of Columbia; State of Hawai’i; State of Main; State of Maryland; State of Michigan; State of Minnesota; State of Nevada; State of North Carolina; State of New Mexico; State of Oregon; State of Vermont; State of Washington; State of Wisconsin (Executive action related to the temporary pause of grants, loans and assistance programs)
21. Jan. 28, 2025: National Council of Nonprofits, American Public Health Association, Main Street Alliance, SAGE (Executive action related to the temporary pause of grants, loans and assistance programs)
22. Jan. 28, 2025: Nicolas Talbott, Erica Vandal, Kate Cole, Gordon Herrero, Dany Danridge, Jamie Hash, Koda Nature, and Cael Neary, transgender U.S. military members or those seeking to enlist (Executive Order: Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness)
23. Jan. 29, 2025: American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO (‘AFGE’); American Federation of State, County And Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO (‘AFSCME’) (Executive Order: Restoring Accountability to Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce)
24. Jan. 30, 2025: OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates (Executive Order: ​​Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship)
25. Jan. 30, 2025: County of Santa Clara (Executive Order: Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship)
26. Jan. 30, 2025: Jane Doe; Mary Doe; Sara Doe, transgender federal inmates (Executive Order: Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government)
27. Jan. 31, 2025: Amica Center for Immigrant Rights, American Gateways, Florence Immigrant Refugee Rights Project, Estrella Del Paso, Immigration Services and Legal Advocacy, National Immigrant Justice Center, NW Immigrant Rights Project, PA Immigration Resource Center, Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Center (Executive Order: Protecting the American People Against Invasion)
28. Feb. 3, 2025: Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (Presidential Proclamation Guaranteeing the States Protection Against Invasion)
29. Feb. 3, 2025: Alliance for Retired Americans, American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO (Executive Action related to disclosure of personal and financial records to DOGE)
30. Feb. 3, 2025: National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education; American Association of University Professors; Restaurant Opportunities Centers United; Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, Maryland (Executive Orders: Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing and Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity)
31. Feb. 4, 2025: PFLAG, Inc and American Association of Physicians for Human Rights, Inc. (Executive Orders: Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government and Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation)
32. Feb. 4, 2025: John and Jane Doe 1-9, employees and agents of the FBI (Executive Order: Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government)
33. Feb. 4, 2025; Doctors for America (Executive order: Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government)
34. Feb. 4, 2025: Federal Bureau of Investigation Agents Association; seven John and Jane Doe plaintiffs (Executive Order: Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government)
35. Feb. 4, 2025: Aids Vaccine Advocacy Coalition; Journalism Development Network, Inc (Executive Order: Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid)
36. Feb. 5, 2025: American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, American Federation of Government Employees, AFLCIO, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO, Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO, Communication Workers of America, AFL-CIO, Economic Policy Institute (Executive Action related to disclosure of personal and financial records to DOGE)
37. Feb. 5, 2025: Gwynne Wilcox, former National Labor Relations Board member (Executive action related to removal of independent agency leaders)
38. Feb. 6, 2025: Government Accountability Project and National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association (Executive Order: Restoring Accountability to Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce)
39. Feb. 6, 2025: American Foreign Service Association, American Federation of Government Employees (Executive order: Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid)
40. Feb. 6, 2025: Commander Emily Shilling; Commander Blake Dremann; Lieutenant Commander Geirid Morgan; Sergeant First Class Cathrine Schmid; Sergeant First Class Jane Doe; Staff Sergeant Videl Leins; Matthew Medina; and Gender Justice League (Executive Order: Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness)
41. Feb. 7, 2025: City and County of San Francisco (Executive Order: Protecting the American People Against Invasion)
42. Feb. 7, 2025: State of New York; State of Arizona, State of California, State of Colorado, State of Connecticut, State of Delaware, State of Hawaii, State of Illinois, State of Maine, State of Maryland, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, State of Minnesota, State of Nevada, State of New Jersey, State of North Carolina, State of Oregon, State of Rhode Island, State of Vermont, and State of Wisconsin (Executive Action related to disclosure of personal and financial records to DOGE)
43. Feb. 7, 2025: University of California Student Association (Executive Action related to disclosure of personal and financial records to DOGE)
44. Feb. 7, 2025: State of Washington, State of Minnesota, State of Oregon, Physician 1, Physician 2, and Physician 3 (Executive Orders: Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government and Protecting Children From Chemical and Surgical Mutilation)
45. Feb. 7, 2025: Ashton Orr, Zaya Perysian, Sawyer Soe, Chastain Anderson, Drew Hall, Bella Boe, and Reid Solomon-Lan (Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government)
46. Feb. 9, 2025: Luis Eduardo Perez Parra, Leonel Jose Rivas Gonzalez, Abraham Josue Barrios Morales, and M.R.R.Y (Presidential Memorandum: Expanding Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantánamo Bay to Full Capacity)
47. Feb. 9, 2025: National Treasury Employees Union (Executive Action related to disclosure of personal and financial records to DOGE)
48. Feb. 9, 2025: National Treasury Employees Union (Executive action related to the dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
49. Feb. 10, 2025: HIAS, Church World Service, and Lutheran Community Services Northwest (​​Executive Order: Realigning the United States Refugee Admissions Program)
50. Feb. 10, 2025: American Federation of Teachers, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association, National Federation of Federal Employees (Executive Action related to disclosure of personal and financial records to DOGE)
51. Feb. 10, 2025: Electronic Privacy Information Center (Executive Action related to disclosure of personal and financial records to DOGE)
52. Feb. 10, 2025: Hampton Dellinger, special Counsel of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (Executive action related to government employment termination)
53. Feb. 10, 2025: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Attorney General Dana Nessel on behalf of the people of the State of Michigan, State of Illinois, State of Arizona, State of California, State of Connecticut, State of Colorado, State of Delaware, State of Hawai’i, State of Maine, State of Maryland, State of Minnesota, State of New Jersey, State of New York, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of North Carolina, State of Oregon, State of Rhode Island, State of Vermont, State of Washington, and State of Wisconsin (Executive Action related to the reduction in indirect cost reimbursement rate for research institutions, such as National Institutes of Health)
54. Feb. 10, 2025: Association of American Universities, American Council on Education, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, Brandeis University, Brown University, the Regents of the University of California, the California Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Chicago, Cornell University, the George Washington University, Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Rochester, and Trustees of Tufts College (Executive Action related to the reduction in indirect cost reimbursement rate for research institutions, such as National Institutes of Health)
55. Feb. 10, 2025: Association of American Medical Colleges; the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy; the Association for Schools and Programs of Public Health; the Conference of Boston Teaching Hospitals, Inc.; and Greater New York Hospital Association (Executive Action related to the reduction in indirect cost reimbursement rate for research institutions, such as National Institutes of Health)
56. Feb. 10, 2025: Jane Jones, transgender federal inmate (Executive Order: Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government)
57. Feb. 11, 2025: American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO. (Executive action related to Office of Personnel Management directive on deferred resignation offer to federal employees)
58. ​​Feb. 11, 2025: Global Health Council; Small Business Association for International Companies; HIAS; Management Sciences for Health; Chemonics International, Inc; Dai Global, Llc; Democracy International, Inc; American Bar Association (Executive Order: Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid)
59. Feb. 11, 2025: Mennonite Church USA; the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church; Central Atlantic Conference United Church of Christ; the Central Conference of American Rabbis; Christian Church (Disciples of Christ); Church of the Brethren, Inc; Convención Bautista Hispana De Texas; the Episcopal Church; Fellowship Southwest; Friends General Conference; General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.s.a.); General Commission on Religion and Race of the United Methodist Church; Latino Christian National Network; Massachusetts Council of Churches; the New York Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church; New York State Council of Churches; North Carolina Council of Churches; the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church; the Rabbinical Assembly; Reconstructing Judaism; Rhode Island State Council of Churches; Union for Reform Judaism; Unitarian Universalist Association; the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism; the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church; Wisconsin Council of Churches; Wisdom, Inc. (Executive action related to ​​immigration enforcement in places of worship)
60. Feb. 11, 2025: Cathy Harris, chair of the Merit Systems Protection Board (Executive action related to removal of independent agency leaders) 
61. Feb. 11, 2025: American Oversight (Executive Action related to the terminations of inspectors general)
62. Feb. 11, 2025: Denise Nemeth-Greenleaf, Jason Judkins, Jon Michel, Donna Nemeth, and Michael Rifer, who are a group of federal employees (Executive Action related to disclosure of personal and financial records to DOGE)
63. Feb. 12, 2025: Andrea Gribbon, Cherice Prater, Helga Hertlein, Donald Custer, Lynn Boisrond, Dennis Titko (Executive Action related to disclosure of personal and financial records to DOGE)
64. Feb. 12, 2025: Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, Economic Action Maryland Fund (Executive action related to the dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
65. Feb. 12, 2025: Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, American Gateways, Americans for Immigrant Justice (Presidential Memorandum: Expanding Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantánamo Bay to Full Capacity)
66. Feb. 12, 2025: Robert P. Storch; Michael J. Missal; Christi A. Grimm; Cardell K. Richardson, Sr.; Sandra D. Bruce; Phyllis K. Fong; Larry D. Turner; Hannibal ‘Mike’ Ware, who served as inspectors general (Executive Action related to the terminations of inspectors general)
67. Feb. 12, 2025: Denver Public Schools (Executive action related to ​​immigration enforcement in places of worship and schools)
68. Feb. 12, 2025: Tirrell v. Edelblut (Executive Order: Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government)
69. Feb. 13, 2025: J. Doe 1-26 (Executive Action related to disclosure of personal and financial records to DOGE)
70. Feb. 13, 2025: Susan Tsui Grundmann (Executive action related to removal of independent agency leaders) 
71. Feb. 13, 2025: States of New Mexico, Arizona, Michigan, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington (Executive Action related to disclosure of personal and financial records to DOGE)
72. Feb. 13, 2025: Josh Shapiro, in his official capacity as governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection; Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; Pennsylvania Department of Transportation; and Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (Executive action related to the temporary pause of grants, loans and assistance programs)
73. Feb. 13, 2025: New York Immigration Coalition (Executive Order: ​​Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship)
74. Feb. 17, 2025: Center for Taxpayer Rights (Executive Action related to disclosure of personal and financial records to DOGE)
75. Feb. 17, 2025: John Does 1-6 and Jane Does 1-5 v. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (Executive Orders: Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing and Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity)
76. Feb. 18, 2025: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (​​Executive Order: Realigning the United States Refugee Admissions Program)
77. Feb. 18. 2025: Personal Services Contractor Association (Executive Order: Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid)
78. Feb. 19, 2025: Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority (Executive action related to the Department of Transportation rescinding an authorization for New York’s congestion pricing plan)
79. Feb. 19, 2025: National Urban League, National Fair Housing Alliance, Aids Foundation of Chicago (Executive Orders: Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing, Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity)
80. Feb. 19, 2025: American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO; American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO; AFGE Local 1216; and United Nurses Associations of California/union of Health Care Professionals, AFSCME, AFL-CIO (Executive action related to the termination of probationary employees within the federal government)
81. Feb. 19, 2025: Northern Alaska Environmental Center, Alaska Wilderness League, Oceana, Inc., Sierra Club, Surfrider Foundation, Healthy Gulf, Center for Biological Diversity, Turtle Island Restoration Network, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., and Greenpeace, Inc. (Executive Order: Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions)
82. Feb. 19, 2025: National TPS Alliance (Executive action related to DHS terminating Temporary Protected Status for Venezuela)
83. Feb. 20, 2025: Casa, Inc., Make the Road New York (Executive action related to DHS terminating Temporary Protected Status for Venezuela)
84. Feb. 20, 2025: San Francisco Aids Foundation; Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society; Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center, Inc. D/b/a San Francisco Community Health Center; Los Angeles LGBT Center; Prisma Community Care; Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, Inc. D/b/a the LGBT Community Center; Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center; Baltimore Safe Haven Corp.; and Forge, Inc. (Executive Orders: Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing and Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity)
85. Feb. 20, 2025: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (Executive action related to records retention and DOGE)
86. Feb. 21, 2025: American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO, Alliance for Retired Americans, American Federation of Teachers (Executive Action related to disclosure of personal and financial records to DOGE)
87. Feb. 21, 2025: The City of New York (Executive action related to denying federal grants)
88. Feb. 21, 2025: The Associated Press (Executive action related to denying media access to White House)
89. Feb. 21, 2025: Project on Government Oversight, Inc.(Executive action related to records retention and DOGE)
90. Feb. 23, 2025: City of Chelsea and City of Somerville (Executive Order: Protecting the American People Against Invasion)
91. Feb. 24, 2025: Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Environmental Working Group (Executive action related to the Department of Agriculture removing climate change-related data from website)
92. Feb. 24, 2025: Travis Leblanc and Edward Felten (Executive action related to removal of independent agency leaders) 
93. Feb. 25, 2025: American Federation of Teachers, American Sociological Association, American Federation of Teachers Maryland (Executive action related to the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights’ letter banning DEI-related programs)
94. Feb. 26, 2025: Chicago Women in Trades (Executive Orders: Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing and Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity)
95. Feb. 26, 2025: Democracy Forward Foundation (Executive action related to records retention and DOGE)
96. Feb. 28, 2025: Democratic National Committee, DSCC, DCCC (Executive Order: Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies)
97. Feb. 28, 2025: Democracy Forward Foundation (Executive action related to records retention and DOGE)
98. March 1, 2025: Maiker Alejandro Espinoza Escalona (Presidential Memorandum: Expanding Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantánamo Bay to Full Capacity)
99. March 3, 2025: American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, National Center for Teacher Residencies, the Maryland Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (Executive Orders: Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing and Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity)
100. March 3, 2025: Pueblo of Isleta; Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation; Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes; Ella Bowen; Kaiya Brown; Danielle Ledesma; Victor Organista; and Aiyanna Tanyan (Executive action related to Bureau of Indian Education layoffs)
101. March 3, 2025: Environmental Defense Fund (Executive action related to records retention and DOGE)
102. March 3, 2025: Alishea Kingdom, Solo Nichols, Jas Kapule (Executive Order: Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government)
103. March 3, 2025: Haitian-Americans United Inc.; Venezuelan Association of Massachusetts; Undocublack Network, Inc.; Sydney Doe; Marlene Doe; Gustavo Doe; and Natalia Doe (Executive action related to DHS terminating Temporary Protected Status for Venezuela)
104. March 3, 2025: Center for Biological Diversity (Executive Action related to disclosure of personal and financial records to DOGE)
105. March 3, 2025: Catholic Charities, Diocese of Fort Worth, Inc. (Executive action related to the temporary pause of grants, loans and assistance programs)
106. March 3, 2025: Environmental Defense Fund (Executive action related to records retention and DOGE)
107. March 5, 2025: National Endowment for Democracy (Executive action related to State Department funds)
108. March 5, 2025: Japanese American Citizens League, Oca – Asian Pacific American Advocates, Sierra Club, Union of Concerned Scientists (Executive Action related to disclosure of personal and financial records to DOGE)
109. March 4, 2025: Mary Comans (Executive action related to the disclosure of civil servant personnel records)
110. March 6, 2025: States of Maryland, Minnesota, District of Columbia, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin (Executive action related to government employment termination)
111. March 6, 2025: State of California; Commonwealth of Massachusetts; State of New Jersey; State of Colorado; State of Illinois; State of Maryland; State of New York; and State of Wisconsin (Executive Orders: Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing and Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity)
112. March 6, 2025: Rhode Island Latino Arts, National Queer Theater, the Theater Offensive, and Theatre Communications Group (Executive Orders: Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing and Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity)
113. March 6, 2025: Ward Brehm, in his personal capacity and in his official capacity as President of the United States African Development Foundation (Executive Order: Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy)
114. March 7, 2025: Centro De Trabajadores Unidos, Immigrant Solidarity Dupage (Executive Orders: Securing Our Borders, Protecting the American People Against Invasion, and Establishing and Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’)
115. March 9, 2025: Mahmoud Khalil (Executive action related to the detention and deportation of non-citizens)
116. March 11, 2025: Perkins Coie LLP (Executive Order: Addressing Risks From Perkins Coie LLP)
117. March 12, 2025: Gordon Schiff and Celeste Royce (Executive order: Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government)
118. March 13, 2025: State of New York; Commonwealth of Massachusetts; State of Hawaiʻi; State of California; State of Arizona; State of Colorado; State of Connecticut; State of Delaware; the District of Columbia; State of Illinois; State of Maine; State of Maryland; Attorney General Dana Nessel for the People of Michigan; State of Minnesota; State of Nevada; State of New Jersey; State of Oregon; State of Rhode Island; State of Vermont; State of Washington; and State of Wisconsin (Executive action related to the dismantling of the Department of Education)
119. March 13, 2025: American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO; American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO TSA Local 1121; Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO; and Association of Flight Attendants, CWA, AFL-CIO (Executive action related to collective bargaining)
120. March 13, 2025: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting(Executive action related to the temporary pause of grants, loans and assistance programs)
121. March 13, 2025: Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council; Eastern Rhode Island Conservation District; Green Infrastructure Center; and National Council of Nonprofits (Executive Order: Unleashing American Energy)
122. March 14, 2025: Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, Inc (Executive action related to the dismantling of the Department of Education)
123. March 14, 2025: Democracy Forward Foundation (Executive action related to records retention and DOGE)
124. March 15, 2025: J.G.G., G.F.F., J.G.O., W.G.H., J.A.V (Presidential proclamation: Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of The United States by Tren De Aragua)
125. March 17, 2025: Logan Ireland, and Nicholas Bear Bade (Executive Order: Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness)
126. April 3, 2025: State Of California; State Of Nevada; Commonwealth Of Massachusetts; State Of Arizona; State Of Colorado; State Of Connecticut; State Of Delaware; State Of Hawai‘i; State Of Illinois; State Of Maine; State Of Maryland; People Of The State Of Michigan; State Of Minnesota; State Of New Jersey; State Of New Mexico; State Of New York; State Of Rhode Island; State Of Vermont; State Of Wisconsin (Election law reform executive order) 
127. Emily Ley Paper, Inc. (Imposition of tariffs on China)

Amid the flurry of lawsuits against Trump and his administration, Democratic elected officials and government employees have spoken out against the orders and the Trump agenda overall. 

Democrats and government employees have also staged protests as the Department of Government Efficiency investigates various federal agencies as part of its mission to cut government overspending and weed out corruption and mismanagement of taxpayer funds. 

‘That’s not acceptable,’ House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., declared in January. ‘We are going to fight it legislatively. We are going to fight it in the courts. We’re going to fight it in the streets.’ 

‘We will see you in the court, in Congress, in the streets,’ Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., said at a rally outside the Treasury Department earlier in February. 

‘We are gonna be in your face, we are gonna be on your a–es, and we are going to make sure you understand what democracy looks like, and this ain’t it,’ Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, said at the same rally. 

Trump joined Fox News’ Bret Baier for an exclusive interview ahead of the Super Bowl on Feb. 9, where he was asked about a lawsuit filed by attorneys general to restrict DOGE and its chair, Elon Musk, from accessing the Treasury Department’s systems and a judge temporarily blocking the DOGE team from the data. 

‘Nineteen states attorneys general filed a lawsuit, and early Saturday a judge agreed with them to restrict Elon Musk and his government efficiency team, DOGE, from accessing Treasury Department payment and data systems. They said there was a risk of ‘irreparable harm.’ What do you make of that?’ Baier asked Trump in the interview clip. ‘And does that slow you down and what you want to do?’ 

‘No, I disagree with it 100%,’ Trump said. ‘I think it’s crazy. And we have to solve the efficiency problem. We have to solve the fraud, waste, abuse, all the things that have gone into the government. You take a look at the USAID, the kind of fraud in there.’  

‘We’re talking about hundreds of millions of dollars of money that’s going to places where it shouldn’t be going,’ Trump said when asked about what DOGE has found while auditing federal agencies in search of government overspending, fraud and corruption.

This tracker will be updated with additional lawsuits as they are confirmed.

The Senate rejected a proposal by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., that would have blocked the Trump administration’s planned $8.8 billion arms sale to Israel. 

Sanders’ proposal was split into two votes, each of which failed, with 15 senators voting for the measure.

Fourteen Democrats voted with Sanders. They were Sens. Richard Durbin, Ill., Martin Heinrich, N.M., Mazie Hirono, Hawaii, Ben Ray Luján, N.M., Tim Kaine, Va., Andy Kim, N.J., Ed Markey, Mass., Jeff Merkley, Ore., Chris Murphy, Conn., Brian Schatz, Hawaii, Tina Smith, Minn., Chris Van Hollen, Md., Elizabeth Warren, Mass., and Peter Welch, Vt.

Prior to the vote, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch, R-Idaho, warned that in passing the resolutions, senators ‘would abandon Israel, our closes ally in the Middle East, during a pivotal moment for global security.’

On Wednesday, Sanders released a video discussing his proposal, in which he demanded that the U.S. ‘end our complicity in these atrocities’ in Gaza. He also accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government of behaving in a ‘barbaric’ fashion, saying that humanitarian aid has been blocked from reaching Gazans.

From Jan. 19, 2025 until March 2, 2025, while the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal was in place, a total of 25,200 aid trucks entered Gaza, according to the Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories. This included 4,200 weekly aid trucks.

Before it fell apart earlier last month, the ceasefire deal saw the release of 33 hostages and nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. 

Israel has long enjoyed bipartisan support in the U.S., but its latest war with Hamas has divided Democrats. Some, like Sen. John Fetterman, Pa., have been fierce defenders of Israel, while others, like Sanders, have been harsh critics.

Sanders introduced a similar proposal in November 2024 during the Biden administration, which also failed. Many of the same senators who voted in favor of his April 2025 proposal voted for the resolution under the Biden administration, except for Sens. Angus King, Maine, Jeanne Shaheen, N.H. and Raphael Warnock, Ga. Fox News Digital contacted their offices to inquire about what changed between November 2024 and now. 

Shaheen’s office referred to a statement that they put out on Thursday, in which the senator explains her vote.

‘As Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, I am deeply concerned by the breakdown of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Immediately de-escalating the conflict is crucial for delivering humanitarian aid to Palestinians, releasing the remaining hostages and preventing a regional war. With the delicate negotiations to restore the ceasefire happening right now, I voted against the Joint Resolutions of Disapproval on arms sales to Israel to encourage progress in those conversations,’ Shaheen said.

When speaking about his joint resolution of disapproval in November, Sanders claimed the Israeli government was controlled ‘not only by right-wing extremists, but by religious zealots.’ He also accused Netanyahu of violating international law.