So far Trump has looked elsewhere for his earliest cabinet and high-level staff appointments, in some cases passing over ...

Republicans complain nominees weren't "properly vetted," but don't get that accusations are a feature, not a bug ...

“Normally, you let the president get his team, put his team in place,” said Sarah Binder, a professor of political science at ...

In today’s edition … Trump has yet to make moves to divest ahead of new term … Expected Trump housing policy could increase ...

It's fitting that President-elect Donald Trump attended an Ultimate Fighting Championship event last weekend. For his cabinet ...

Senate Republicans are rejecting a proposal floated by some advisers to President-elect Trump to take the job of conducting background checks for high-level nominees away from the FBI and give it ...

Sen. Kevin Cramer made the remarks during a CNN interview on Monday, a week after Gaetz was nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to be attorney general.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with ranking member of the House intelligence committee Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., about president-elect Donald Trump's national security appointments.

A growing number of Trump's fellow Republicans in the US Senate, which has a constitutional duty to confirm or reject high-level presidential appointments, have called on the House panel to turn over ...

Two women testified to the House Ethics Committee that they were paid for “sexual favors” by former Rep. Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, a lawyer for the two ...

President-elect Trump is standing by all of his Executive Branch nominations – even the ones stirring up the most controversy ...