By Maggie Haberman White House reporter Two Republican Senate allies of President Trump urged him on Sunday to rethink his decision to strip security details from former advisers who have been ...

Two Republicans, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, voted against moving forward to a final vote on Mr. Hegseth’s nomination. Why aren’t more Republican senators opposed to Pete Hegseth’s ...

Newly-confirmed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth received strong praise from President Trump and other Republicans following a nail-biting Senate vote Friday night that will see him take command of ...

Republican lawmakers are scrambling to codify dozens of executive orders and actions that President Trump signed during his grand return to the Oval Office on Monday. With a few strokes of his pen ...

In the run-up to Donald Trump’s second presidential inauguration, as the so-called Department of Government Efficiency started assembling a team, a couple of progressive activists reached out to ...

But as Trump touches down in Los Angeles on Friday to view the latest damage, forest management remains a political vulnerability for Newsom that Republicans have capitalized on since the ...

At a closed-door House Republican retreat Saturday morning, newly re-elected House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said President-elect Donald Trump was in favor of passing a single reconciliation ...

House Republicans on Thursday passed their version of a “born-alive” abortion bill one day after Democrats blocked the Senate version from advancing. The bill requires health care practitioner ...

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He also said Republicans would investigate pardons handed out by President Joe Biden on his way out the door. Wednesday’s whiplash showed how Johnson is being pulled in opposite directions ...

In the first week of the new Trump administration, Republican groups in Washington have flooded our inboxes with press releases praising virtually every decision he has made. Chapman spoke with us ...