The Senate voted 53 to 47 to confirm Russell T. Vought — an architect of the ultraconservative Project 2025 policy agenda — to lead the White House budget office.

President Donald Trump is scheduled to speak with Panamanian President Raúl Mulino and Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday. Follow for live updates.

The Senate has approved each of President Trump’s selections for cabinet posts that it has voted on to this point. Note: ...

President Donald Trump is moving ahead with his changes to the federal government as world leaders continue to react to his comments that the US “will take over” the Gaza Strip and as Israeli Prime ...

Only Congress can stop payments or shut down agencies, but Iowa’s delegation is OK with ignoring the Constitution, writes the ...

President-elect Donald Trump (R) announced television commentator, author, and retired National Guard officer Pete Hegseth as his nominee for secretary of defense on November 12, 2024. This ...

Senators emerged from a hearing on the fentanyl epidemic in agreement about permanently categorizing the drug and related opioids with the highest possible classification days before one such bill on ...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) today announced the ...