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.

The Senate has approved each of President Trump’s selections for cabinet posts that it has voted on to this point. Note: ...

President Donald Trump is moving ahead with his changes to the federal government as world leaders continue to react to his comments that the US “will take over” the Gaza Strip and as Israeli Prime ...

Only Congress can stop payments or shut down agencies, but Iowa’s delegation is OK with ignoring the Constitution, writes the ...

Senators emerged from a hearing on the fentanyl epidemic in agreement about permanently categorizing the drug and related opioids with the highest possible classification days before one such bill on ...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) today announced the ...

Pam Bondi is widely expected to be confirmed as the country’s top law enforcement official — even as some lawmakers worry ...

The Senate Judiciary Committee has recommended Pam Bondi be confirmed as the next U.S. Attorney General, advancing her nomination on a party-line 12-10 vote.

President Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Justice, Pam Bondi, on Wednesday advanced out of the Senate Judiciary ...

The core of President Donald Trump’s agenda runs through Chuck Grassley, who has been in the chamber longer than his vice president has been alive. Trump must count on the 91-year-old Senate Judiciary ...

Ashley Moody was sworn in as a U.S. senator on Tuesday evening, replacing Marco Rubio, who was sworn in earlier in the day as the next secretary of state. Moody, 49, becomes the second woman to ...

On Tuesday, Congress got a new junior senator from Florida: former state attorney general Ashley Moody. Gov. Ron DeSantis named Moody his choice to replace Marco Rubio, who was sworn in as ...