Trump announced several controversial cabinet nominees, including Democrat-turned-Republican Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence and Fox News host Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense ...

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

Senators returned for the second day of business in the midst of Gaetz-gate: the multi-day freakout taking place over the ...

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

Senate Republicans have elected Senator John Thune of South Dakota as the next Senate majority leader. John Thune, the ...

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

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 ...

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.