The Trump team is reportedly exploring a never-used clause in the Constitution that might allow a president to adjourn ...

To install AG Matt Gaetz this way would be anti-constitutional.

Trump wants to use a constitutional clause to appoint Cabinet members without Senate confirmation, which could let him push ...

Congressional Republicans are preparing to carry out President-elect Donald Trump's agenda. This weekend, he took to social ...

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President-elect Donald Trump wants the Senate to bypass approval for his Cabinet choices. How is that possible? We'll explain ...

A recess, for the Senate, means giving up power to the president — especially the power they share under the Constitution to ...

President-elect Trump has demanded on X that Senate Republican leadership "must agree to Recess Appointments (in the Senate!), without which we will not ...

He is reportedly considering triggering an obscure constitutional provision that would allow him to force a recess over the ...

GOP lawmakers should just give Trump his recess appointments. Don't bother the poor man with things he hates, like 'norms' ...

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