Congress controls the power of the purse, but Republicans on Capitol Hill have put up little resistance to efforts by the ...

Moments after Mitch McConnell voted to confirm President Donald Trump's pick for HUD secretary, the 82-year-old Kentucky ...

Scott Turner was confirmed Wednesday as the housing secretary, a role central to President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda at ...

Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-S.D.), who will succeed McConnell as Senate GOP leader in January, told reporters ...

Thune knows the stakes all too well: Retaliatory tariffs during Trump’s 2018 trade war with China crippled South Dakota’s agriculture-dependent economy — which relies on the billions of dollars worth ...

Senator Mitch McConnell fell down the stairs in the Senate moments after he confirmed President Donald Trump's Department of ...

Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-WY) did not provide a direct answer on whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has enough votes to be confirmed as Health and Human Services secretary, ...

As President Donald Trump moved last month to free the people who stormed the U.S. Capitol, his newly appointed top ...

When asked if Kennedy would have enough support, Barrasso said Republicans are “working very hard” to ensure Trump’s nominees get confirmed, suggesting that Democratic lawmakers view Kennedy ...

U.S. Sen John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, said Trump’s tariffs, or even the threat of them, could be a persuasive means to ensure the U.S. is treated fairly in global commerce. “President Trump is fighting ...