Trump’s picks have so far succeeded in Senate confirmation votes, including some of his more controversial nominees, like Pete Hegseth for defense secretary. That’s despite an early speed bump in ...

Catch up on the political news of the past week in the latest At the Races newsletter, including gubernatorial bids and ...

President Donald Trump is set to convene his first Cabinet meeting on Wednesday – a gathering of agency leaders who’ve taken different approaches to proving their loyalty to Trump in public and ...

Terminations began Feb. 14, but it’s not clear how many Kentuckians who work for the federal government have been cut.

The United States Senate on Thursday voted to confirm Kash Patel as the number of President Donald Trump’s confirmed cabinet ...

The House is on track to debate the GOP’s massive budget blueprint next week. The House Rules Committee is scheduled Monday ...

The Senate has tapped Brooke Rollins as the new agriculture secretary. The Texas native was easily confirmed in a vote of 72-28 by the Senate on Feb. 11, 2025. Rollins is just the second woman to ...

For all the heartburn over recess appointments to confirm President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, the Senate is breezing through even the most controversial nominees thanks to limited Republican opposition.

The confirmations on Thursday of Brooke Rollins to lead the Department ... Only three GOP senators — Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) — voted against ...

Can Robert R. Kennedy Jr. make American healthy again? South Dakota's U.S. Sens. John Thune and Mike Rounds believe so. RFK Jr. was confirmed this week as secretary of Health and Human Services with ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he will only agree to meet in person with Russian leader Vladimir Putin after a common plan is negotiated with U.S. President Donald Trump. Zelenskyy ...

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins suggested that Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency could be brought into the USDA to help improve the efficiency of the Supplemental ...