US Senate Majority Leader Thune’s latest financial disclosure includes a book deal

U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-South Dakota, has an agreement to write his first book, according to his latest annual financial disclosure.

The report, filed May 13 and covering 2025, lists a royalty agreement with Hachette Book Group in New York for “an advance of royalties based on usual and customary terms for forthcoming but untitled book.”

The disclosure does not identify the book’s subject, expected publication date or the amount of the advance. The report lists February 2026 as the date of the agreement and says Thune did not receive any income from it in 2025.

Hachette did not respond to a request for more information. Thune’s office declined to comment.

Hachette imprints published two books by former South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who now works for President Donald Trump’s administration as special envoy for the Shield of the Americas: “Not My First Rodeo” in 2022 and “No Going Back” in 2024. “No Going Back” attracted national attention for Noem’s account of fatally shooting a hunting dog and a goat.