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Trump's use of recess appointments would bypass the Senate confirmation process for some of the most powerful positions in ...

To allow Trump to make the appointments, Republican senators would have to pass a motion of adjournment with a simple ...

Tulsi Gabbard - a former Democratic congresswoman who joined the Republican Party to back Donald Trump - is the ...

Though Trump spent most of the past year insisting that he knew nothing about the Heritage Foundation’s “Mandate for ...

Mike Pence said choosing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a departure from what he framed as the Trump-Pence administration's general ...

Johnson’s comments were a reversal from Wednesday, when he suggested a hands-off approach to the Gaetz report. The “Speaker ...

It’s been over a week since Election Day, and we’ve heard what pundits think cost Vice President Kamala Harris the election.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson says releasing the ethics committee report on the Florida lawmaker would set "a terrible ...

President-elect Donald J. Trump wants Congress to repeal a $7,500 electric vehicle tax credit. Doing so would hurt American ...

Though Trump had named a slew of individuals to various positions in his second administration, Boebert was not among them as ...

With President-elect Trump building his Cabinet, the idea of recess appointments has been floated, but what are they and how ...