Senate Republicans need Democratic support to reopen the government, but they aren't ready to change Senate rules to ...

Republicans confirmed 107 Trump nominees including Herschel Walker and Sergio Gor as ambassadors, marking the second use of ...

David Toepfer, who has served in the role temporarily since July 2025, received bipartisan support despite partisan disputes ...

In a move that shows the government budget cycle is never truly over, appropriators in the Michigan Senate on Wednesday took ...

The rules change will allow the Senate to confirm multiple people at once, helping to clear a backlog of nearly 150 Trump ...

The mass confirmation comes after Senate Republicans changed the chamber's rules to overcome delays by Democrats, who say it ...

Facing a 50-50 partisan split in the U.S. Senate, the chamber's top Democrat and Republican discussed adopting a power-sharing deal similar to one struck two decades ago in similar circumstances, a ...

During a press conference today, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) claims Senate Democrats will try to get rid of the filibuster if they get back the majority. Meanwhile, Thune and his GOP ...

Facing Democratic opposition, the GOP has discarded a series of precedents and weakened minority power in order to vote ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has confirmed 48 of President Donald Trump’s nominees at once, voting for the first time under new rules to begin clearing a backlog of executive branch positions that had ...

The new rule, established by the GOP on party lines, will enable it to confirm Trump nominees in groups, rather than ...

Republicans established a new precedent allowing them to confirm scores of Donald Trump's nominees more quickly. It could come back to bite them.