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.

WASHINGTON U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), a member of the U.S.

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 ...

A majority of U.S. senators and representatives receive campaign funding from pharmaceutical companies — an important part of ...

A group of nearly 40 Senate Democrats is calling on President Trump to reinstate all of the inspectors general (IG) he fired in one night last week, arguing the decision does not comply with ...

President Donald Trump’ s most controversial Cabinet nominees — Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel — flooded ...

Bessent received a bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1984. After graduating, Bessent worked at Brown Brothers Harriman and Kynikos Associates. [5] In 1991, Bessent began working at Soros Fund ...

Senate Democrats blocked consideration of legislation sanctioning the International Criminal Court for issuing arrest ...

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture said during her confirmation hearing Thursday that ...

The role is key to Trump’s plans for his second term after pledging to deport millions of undocumented immigrants and impose a crackdown at the southern border.

President Trump’s cabinet picks were readily ushered into the new administration after this week’s Senate confirmation ...

President Donald Trump's “border czar,” Tom Homan; Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich. NBC's “Meet the Press” — Sens. Lindsey Graham ...