The Trump team is reportedly exploring a never-used clause in the Constitution that might allow a president to adjourn ...

To install AG Matt Gaetz this way would be anti-constitutional.

Trump wants to use a constitutional clause to appoint Cabinet members without Senate confirmation, which could let him push ...

Congressional Republicans are preparing to carry out President-elect Donald Trump's agenda. This weekend, he took to social ...

Here is what we know about recess appointments. Download USA TODAY's app to get to the heart of news Trump's Defense ...

A recess, for the Senate, means giving up power to the president — especially the power they share under the Constitution to ...

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

President-elect Trump has demanded on X that Senate Republican leadership "must agree to Recess Appointments (in the Senate!), without which we will not ...

Some members of the Cabinet, like vice president and White House chief of staff, do not need Senate approval. But most of ...

GOP lawmakers should just give Trump his recess appointments. Don't bother the poor man with things he hates, like 'norms' ...

“Republican control of the Senate thus gives Trump the chance to use recess appointments in radically new way — basically, ...