Just hours after Republican Sen. John Thune was elected as the incoming Senate majority leader, President-elect Donald Trump ...

Fox & Friends co-host Pete Hegseth, who was nominated by Donald Trump to be the next secretary of defense, was previously ...

To allow Trump to make the appointments, Republican senators would have to pass a motion of adjournment with a simple ...

Several Republican senators have said they are not inclined to abdicate their "advice and consent" role in presidential ...

Donald Trump's extreme administration picks may face an uphill Senate confirmation battle, but they could be forced in through recess appointments.

For Congress, it’s a potentially existential moment, one that is testing if its status as a co-equal branch of government can withstand a second Trump presidency.

President-elect Trump has made quick work of pulling together a Cabinet and group of senior aides for his incoming ...

South Dakotans are still buzzing about last week’s election, not so much about the final results, but rather the rising ...

Secretary of Homeland Security nominee Kristi Noem has a long, complicated history with tribes in South Dakota. Tribal ...

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson says releasing the ethics committee report on the Florida lawmaker would set "a terrible precedent".

Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz’s nomination as the new Attorney General might face an uphill battle in the Senate, but his confirmation could create a political predicament for Republicans in ...

While the next four years of President-elect Donald Trump’s administration are still being constructed, South Dakota ...