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As President Trump held a bill signing ceremony July 4 for his One Big Beautiful Bill, Sen. John Thune missed the pomp and circumstance. The Senate’s Republican leader was back home spending the Independence Day holiday with family on the Missouri River, where he celebrated the bill’s passage with a backflip into the river.

Sen. John Thune is leaning into landmark legislation that he helped usher through Congress last month, which at the time he called “generational.”

South Dakotans will be able to turn a chunk of their federal tax payments into education funding.

South Dakota will receive $189.4 million in federal funding for rural health care in fiscal year 2026, an amount nearly double what the state could have received.