With 16 Senate confirmations so far, the pace of Trump's second term eclipses that during the same period in his first term, when there were only seven and just 11 for Biden.

The triumph of Trump’s most controversial picks has set the tone for the president’s domineering relationship with Congress — ...

Republicans slammed Democrats' claims that the Department of Government Efficiency's actions potentially threatened U.S. national security.

As the longest-serving Senate leader in history, McConnell developed a reputation for keeping his rank-and-file members in line and frustrating Democrats by relentlessly using procedural tactics to ...

The U.S. has roughly one month until the government runs out of money, and the talks to avoid that are a mess, writes Philip ...

President Donald Trump got his two former progressive Democratic Cabinet picks confirmed with little Republican dissent this week despite early predictions that they would have trouble getting through ...

A group of non-profits suing the Trump administration over its 90-day foreign aid freeze are accusing government officials of ...

The Senate is deliberately slow-walking Rep. Elise Stefanik’s nomination to be President Donald Trump’s ambassador to the ...

"Trump and Vance have done more to smash free speech in America than any other Administration in our lifetime." ...

Sen. Adam Schiff(D-CA), who as a Congressman was famously one of President Donald Trump’s main congressional opponents during ...

Democratic leaders gathered in Washington, D.C. to select new officers for the Democratic National Committee. With the ...

An unlikely collaboration in the U.S. Senate speaks to the enduring intersection in Virginia of whiskey and politics.