By Kristen Holmes, Lauren Fox, Pamela Brown, Jamie Gangel and Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump is pressing forward with his decision to put forward former Rep. Matt Gaetz as ...

Sen. John Thune "has called for taking the debt limit hostage to force cuts to Social Security," warned one defender of the ...

South Dakota's relatively unassuming national presence was shattered this week after a meteoric rise to power for Gov. Kristi ...

It’s been a whirlwind two days, but John Thune is out of Washington, D.C. and back home “Always good to be in South Dakota, ...

WASHINGTON – Republicans have taken control of the U.S. Senate, leaving Colorado’s two Democratic senators in the minority.

Some members of the Cabinet, like vice president and White House chief of staff, do not need Senate approval. But most of ...

President-elect Donald Trump tapped Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the US Health and Human Services Department. Vaccine stocks ...

Vice President-elect JD Vance has been working the phones reaching out to senators trying to gauge support for former Florida ...

If you wanted to test the loyalty of the U.S. Senate and its members’ willingness to capitulate to you and your agenda, you ...

Trump’s eyebrow-raising Cabinet nominees and the threat of recess appointments are putting the incoming Senate leader between ...

Donald Trump will begin his second term as president the same way he began his first—with Republicans controlling both the ...

Ironically, McConnell’s best interpersonal relationship with any president during his long political career was with Joe ...