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

Businesses have been lobbying Congress and preparing legal challenges to push back on Trump’s proposal to enact tariffs on ...

The president-elect has tapped a series of scandal-ridden loyalists to occupy the highest ranks of government. What now?

Should Hegseth win Senate confirmation, he will discover when he takes office that changing the Pentagon’s behavioral and ...

Taiwan hopes to keep ties with the U.S. stable, and Trump’s slate of appointees is a mixed bag in that regard.

That Trump appears to be free of humility and most of us — at some level — probably know it, means that a principled, ...

Americans will soon find out if our national government system of checks and balances works or is subject to partisan rupture ...

Senate Democrats are rushing to confirm Biden’s final nominees for federal judge positions before the party loses the chamber ...

The Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, defeated once this week, is already back from the dead.

President-elect Donald J. Trump still has choices to make for about a dozen cabinet or cabinet-level roles, including the leaders of the Treasury, Commerce and Labor Departments.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Tampa Bay Times reporter Kirby Wilson about the nomination of Congressman Matt Gaetz as Attorney General and his rise through Florida politics.

Utah Sen. Mike Lee, who was widely considered a top pick for AG, told the Deseret News in a statement that Trump’s Cabinet ...