By this time next week, the landscape of the Senate GOP caucus may have a bumpier contour. Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana will not return to Congress next year, following the former’s retirement announcement last year and the latter’s loss in his primary last week.

Charles Hilu is a reporter for The Dispatch based in Washington, D.C. Before joining the company in 2024, he was the Collegiate Network Fellow at the Washington Free Beacon and interned at both National Review and the Washington Examiner. When he is not chasing down lawmakers on Capitol Hill, he is probably listening to show tunes or following the premier sports teams of the University of Michigan and city of Detroit.

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