McConnell, free from leadership constraints, bucks Trump and the evolving GOP
Sen. Mitch McConnell was a generational force for the Republican Party — using procedural tactics and political will to ...
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Stephanie Grace: When Bill Cassidy and Mitch McConnell traded places
U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy once stood up to Donald Trump's excesses, even as then-Senate GOP leader enabled them.Those days are ...
Senate delivers Trump confirmations at breakneck pace with little GOP resistance
With 16 Senate confirmations so far, the pace of Trump's second term eclipses that during the same period in his first term, when there were only seven and just 11 for Biden.
How Trump got the Cabinet he wanted and quashed GOP concerns
The triumph of Trump’s most controversial picks has set the tone for the president’s domineering relationship with Congress — ...
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Senate confirms Gabbard as Trump’s director of national intelligence after Republicans fall in line
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Tulsi Gabbard as President Donald Trump’s director of national ...
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McConnell tests the strengths and limits of his power opposing a trio of Trump’s Cabinet nominees
No longer in charge, Sen. Mitch McConnell has been speaking his mind, the long-serving GOP leader rejecting President Donald Trump’s more high-profile Cabinet nominees — alone at times, among the ...