Recess appointments would allow Donald Trump to appoint his nominees while the Senate is not in session, skirting the ...

President-elect Donald Trump is considering recess appointments to skip over Senate confirmations for some of the most ...

Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell announced he would step down from his leadership post earlier this year, ending his historic ...

S.D., is planning to make ushering in President-Elect Donald Trump's immigration agenda the first item on his to-do list when ...

The outcome of the secret leadership ballot, expected after the November election, is deeply uncertain. It’s a weighty choice ...

Senate Republicans have elected Sen. John Thune (R-SD) – who has long been hostile to LGBTQ+ rights – as the next Senate ...

The pragmatic establishment figure who offers candid political takes as McConnell’s voter-counter is someone Democrats say is ...

The MAGA GOP is whining about their Medicare fraudster Sen. Rick Scott, a Trump puppet, wasn't chosen as the Senate Majority ...

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s plan to nominate loyalists for critical roles, including Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth, has ...

Thune, of South Dakota, beat out Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Rick Scott of Florida in a secret ballot election to replace Mitch McConnell.

Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) was elected vice chairman of the Republican conference during Wednesday’s leadership elections.

A look at the three candidates: Thune, 63, defeated then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle in 2004 after arguing during the campaign that Daschle had lost his South Dakota roots during his years in ...