WASHINGTON — Republican skepticism in the Senate of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees has been worn down, putting his unconventional choices for some of the most powerful positions in ...

Two decades after “The Republican War on Science” was published, the broader crisis has reached a level that hardly seemed possible in the recent past. By Steve Benen When University of ...

Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence, political observers — us included — wondered whether the Republican-controlled Senate would sign off on these controversial nominees.

As GOP hardliners spent the weekend pushing party leaders to cut deeper into Medicaid in an effort to advance Donald Trump’s tax and border agenda, swing-district Republicans have been warning ...

Republican senators say they want to convince President Trump to support their plan to take the lead on a budget reconciliation package when they meet with him at Mar-a-Lago on Friday. Republican ...

Just six months into his first term, Donald Trump had an Oval Office meeting with then-Republican Rep. Kristi Noem of South Dakota, eight years before she became his Homeland Security director.

This year, under pressure from conservative House Republicans, the GOP is planning to include substantial cuts in federal spending to the legislation to extend the tax cuts passed during Trump’s ...

Republican gains in voter registration are raising red flags for Democrats in key states, underscoring the inroads the GOP made across the country in 2024. The latest shifts, following eroding ...

MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Supreme Court allowed the swing state’s nonpartisan elections director to keep her job Friday, dashing the hopes of Republican state lawmakers who sought to ...

John Hoeven, R-N.D., puts it. Republicans in that chamber expect to mark up their budget resolution as soon as next week, as the House GOP remains locked in an intraparty struggle over its version.

LANSING, Mich. — Former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers is gearing up to announce another Republican bid for U.S. Senate in Michigan, just months after he narrowly lost to Democrat Elissa Slotkin ...