Vice President Vance has quickly become President Trump’s liaison to the Senate, which has paid dividends as the GOP-led body moves to confirm even Trump’s most controversial Cabinet ...

Vance, in other words, has aced his first test as Trump’s Hill whisperer. But more difficult tasks lie ahead. Trump is looking to Vance to muscle his agenda through — not only in the Senate, where he ...

A Trump backlash could help Democrats retake the House in 2026, but the Senate landscape is too pro-Republican.

Before Senator Thom Tillis voted to confirm Pete Hegseth as defense secretary, he worked with accusers to make the case ...

Federal judges considering the legality of Trump’s mass deportations are bound by Supreme Court rulings that noncitizens have ...

Cassidy was begging for the simplest possible concession from the man President Trump had chosen to serve as the nation’s top ...

Senate Republicans have confirmed Trump’s least qualified Cabinet nominees—and given up their role as an independent check on ...

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Yet as the Senate buckles and Trump claims a mandate for expansive presidential power over nominees and more, there is little ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. forged an alliance last year with then-candidate Donald Trump and then benefited from the GOP Senate’s ...

While Republicans, who will be defending 22 of the 35 Senate seats up in 2026, may have the political environment working against them next year, they are still favored to retain the chamber.— Part of ...