As President-elect Donald Trump moves to set up a more forceful presidency than in his first term, he is choosing loyalists for his cabinet and considering a tool known as recess appointments to skip ...

Fox & Friends co-host Pete Hegseth, who was nominated by Donald Trump to be the next secretary of defense, was previously ...

Senator Susan Collins today expressed both hesitation and optimism about some of President-elect Donald Trump's announcements ...

Several Republican senators have said they are not inclined to abdicate their "advice and consent" role in presidential ...

Donald Trump's extreme administration picks may face an uphill Senate confirmation battle, but they could be forced in through recess appointments.

To allow Trump to make the appointments, Republican senators would have to pass a motion of adjournment with a simple ...

With President-elect Trump building his Cabinet, the idea of recess appointments has been floated, but what are they and how ...

President-elect Trump has made quick work of pulling together a Cabinet and group of senior aides for his incoming ...

President-elect Donald Trump is asking the incoming Senate, which will be controlled by his Republican Party, to temporarily go out of session once he’s inaugurated Jan. 20 so that he can jam through ...

A recess, for the Senate, means giving up power to the president — especially the power they share under the Constitution to make appointments to key executive posts, including the president’s cabinet ...

One Trump transition team member says he wants to bend Republican senators to his will “until they snap in half.” ...

The House Ethics Committee reportedly canceled its Friday meeting as pressure surges for the committee to release its report ...