This is McConnell unplugged, three weeks into the Trump administration, and his new role as no longer the Senate GOP leader ...

Mock hearings, last-minute deals and primary threats helped move controversial nominees through the Senate.

No longer in charge, Sen. Mitch McConnell has been speaking his mind, the long-serving GOP leader rejecting President Donald ...

Republicans can’t lose more than three votes if all Democrats are opposed.

It's a simple question for a Cabinet nominee: "What would you do if directed by the president to ignore the law?" Trump's ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. forged an alliance last year with then-candidate Donald Trump and then benefited from the GOP Senate’s ...

President Donald Trump got his two former progressive Democratic Cabinet picks confirmed with little Republican dissent this ...

Three of President Donald Trump’s most controversial nominees faced sharp questions in the Senate during hearings Thursday from Democrats as well as several Republican senators in what amounted to the ...

A slate of President Trump’s Cabinet nominees have appeared before senators in recent weeks for key hearings on their road to confirmation. Former Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) was the first to be ...

The Trump administration is confident that three of his most controversial cabinet nominees will ultimately be confirmed despite public and private resistance from Senate Republicans, sources with ...

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), a swing vote on Trump’s Cabinet nominees, is a “lean yes” on Kennedy’s nomination and had the opposite impression. “I thought he was well prepared. He took a ...