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 ...

Analysis: Eric Garcia details how Trump has previously hinted at using a never-used constitutional power. Would it be enough to get Matt Gaetz or Pete Hegseth through?

The House Ethics Committee was going to vote on whether to release a report on its three-year-long investigation into ...

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

He picked one of the least qualified attorneys in the world, to head one of the most important law enforcement agencies in the world, because he could. I also think that he chose him because he saw a ...

Trump and Gaetz have similar grudges against the Justice Department, both having been the targets of DOJ investigations. Central to Trump’s decision to nominate Gaetz was his belief that the ...

WASHINGTON—Senate Republicans warned that attorney general pick Matt Gaetz would struggle to win the support needed for ...

President-elect Trump is quickly testing the will of Senate Republicans, asking them to back controversial picks to his ...

There are increasing questions from political figures surrounding President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Justice ...

President-elect Donald Trump says he will nominate anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to serve as secretary of the ...

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