President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk have big ambitions for making the federal government leaner and more efficient by reviewing its budget and operations from top to bottom.

Donald Trump is considering recess appointments to skip over Senate confirmations for even some of the most powerful ...

President-elect Donald Trump will meet with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office Wednesday at 11 a.m., White House Press ...

The U.S. Capitol is now Trump country, but that doesn’t mean Republican senators want to discuss President-elect Donald Trump ...

Pete Hegseth has criticized the Pentagon leadership for its diversity efforts and vocally supported service members accused ...

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

Plus, Sen. John Thune will be the next Senate majority leader, while President-elect Donald Trump continues to build his next ...

The Republican senator has spent years battling Anthony S. Fauci and public-health experts over the pandemic’s origins.

Some Senate Republicans have balked at Trump's picking Matt Gaetz to serve as his attorney general. And then there's Tommy ...

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

As attorney general, Gaetz will be fully empowered to carry out Trump’s—and his own—incindiary mandate, litigating culture ...

WASHINGTON — Republicans in the Nov. 5 election took over the White House, the U.S. Senate and as of late Wednesday, the ...