Experts say the president-elect, in pushing for recess appointments, is asking the Senate to abdicate its constitutional duty ...

To allow Trump to make the appointments, Republican senators would have to pass a motion of adjournment with a simple ...

Trump tests Senate with nominations of RFK Jr., Gaetz  Dems seek Biden’s lame-duck executive intervention  Jack Smith winds ...

Some members of the Cabinet, like vice president and White House chief of staff, do not need Senate approval. But most of ...

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), who ran for majority leader explicitly as a Trump lieutenant, made it plain he’d do whatever the new ...

Trump's use of recess appointments would bypass the Senate confirmation process for some of the most powerful positions in ...

The House speaker will “strongly” urge his GOP ethics chair to shutter investigation without letting the Senate see files.

WASHINGTON: Questions - and, for some, outrage - intensified over several of President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet picks on ...

WASHINGTON – Republicans have taken control of the U.S. Senate, leaving Colorado’s two Democratic senators in the minority.

The Republican leader argued releasing the report about Trump's attorney general pick would set a "terrible precedent." ...

Vice President-elect JD Vance has been working the phones reaching out to senators trying to gauge support for former Florida ...

Washington — More than a week after Election Day 2024, the results in a handful of races for the U.S. House of ...