Get the latest news on the transition to the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump and a new Congress.

It’s called the “Department of Government Efficiency,” or DOGE, and it’s named after a vintage meme, based on a picture of ...

Anti-immigrant rhetoric is a proven election victory approach, but it is not a strategy for governing. Will Republicans learn ...

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), who ran for majority leader explicitly as a Trump lieutenant, made it plain he’d do whatever the new ...

Last spring, Donald Trump presided over a meeting with the country’s top oil executives at his Mar-a-Lago resort. According to The Washington Post, Trump promised to fulfill a wish-list of policies ...

Donald Trump has had few defenders in Congress as reliable as Matt Gaetz. That kinship was rewarded Wednesday when Trump named Gaetz as his pick for attorney general, turning to a conservative ...

The president-elect is contemplating taking up never-before-used presidential powers to create a separation of powers crisis ...

The Senate should not use its constitutional advice-and-consent powers to obstruct Trump's plan to finally drain the leftist ...

Unencumbered from the duties of party leadership and in the twilight of his magnificent career, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is free to do what he thinks is right.

Republicans ended up flipping, maintaining control of, or expanding their majority in nearly all of the state legislative ...

The selection of Fox News host Pete Hegseth to lead the Trump Defense Department has renewed scrutiny of his political and ...

Biden administration officials are working against the clock doling out billions in grants and taking other steps to try to ...