You made it. There are any number of reasons you should not have been confirmed, but Republicans were afraid to buck Trump.

In his magisterial two-volume Political Order books, Francis Fukuyama writes extensively about patronage networks, ...

Trump’s DOGE fires thousands more federal employees; president orders end to school Covid-19 vaccine mandates: Live - ...

Follow updates as Donald Trump Cabinet picks Linda McMahon, Robert Kennedy and Kash Patel face Senate proceedings. The ...

Trump’s unconfirmed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick insisted that if “they drop their tariffs, prices will go down,” ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was officially confirmed as secretary of Health and Human Services Thursday with Sen. Mitch McConnell ...

No longer in charge, Sen. Mitch McConnell has been speaking his mind. The long-serving former Republican leader rejected ...

As the longest-serving Senate leader in history, McConnell developed a reputation for keeping his rank-and-file members in line and frustrating Democrats by relentlessly using procedural tactics to ...

Mitch McConnell has a new nickname, and I’m fine with the fact I didn’t pick it. I had some pride of ownership in Morphine ...

U.S. Sen. Tina Smith on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 15, 2021. The Minnesota senator announced Thursday she won ...

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in Thursday as President Donald Trump’s health secretary after a close Senate vote, putting ...