President-elect Donald Trump's picks for his Cabinet and other high-profile posts will be a test for the new Senate. Will it ...

President-elect Donald Trump is considering recess appointments to skip over Senate confirmations for some of the most ...

Republican lawmakers increasingly say not only that Trump has a mandate, but that his mandate is all that matters.

For all the drama generated every four years by Cabinet appointments, defeat of a nominee by a vote in the Senate is ...

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to Health and Human Services and Matt Gaetz to the Justice Department may have been a bridge too far.

After his election win in 2016, Trump met with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office and called it “a great honor." But he soon was back to heaping insults on Obama, including accusing his ...

The Republican president-elect’s victory and the GOP takeover of the Senate leaves just seven weeks of Democratic control of ...

Republican senators want details of the Ethics Committee investigation into Matt Gaetz after Trump selected him to run the ...

Pressure is building on the House Ethics Committee to release its findings on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who ...

Donald Trump's nomination of Fox News host Pete Hegseth to serve as Defense Secretary is generating blowback and confusion ...

Trump is challenging congressional Republicans to defy him as he says he will nominate controversial figures to his Cabinet.

Sen. John Thune was privately backed by President-elect Donald Trump, Steve Daines told his colleagues, despite Trump's ...