President Trump, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) are making slow progress toward a deal to clear some of the Senate’s backlog of ...

With the U.S. Senate set to break for August recess, Sen. Mike Leeis pushing for action on approximately 140 Trump nominees.

The Federal Reserve said on Friday that Governor Adriana Kugler is resigning early from her term and will exit the central ...

Senate Republicans push through Trump nominees as Democrats use delaying tactics, with GOP leaders threatening to cancel ...

The massive backlog of nominees comes just ahead of the Senate's summer recess, which lasts from Aug. 4 to Sept. 1.

In an exclusive interview with The Post Wednesday, Thune said “at some point” the Senate will have to change the nominations ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says putting the Senate into an extended recess to allow President Trump to make ...

The DOJ insisted that the situation in no way resembles special counsel Jack Smith's appointment, which Judge Aileen Cannon invalidated last year in President Donald Trump's scuttled Espionage Act ...

Trump had floated recess appointments at the start of his term as a way to push through some of his more controversial ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune has a decision to make. He can allow the Senate to pack up and leave town for the traditional August recess while the business of government grinds to a halt. Or he ...

Senate Republicans are weighing rule changes and recess appointments to overcome a growing backlog of President Trump’s ...

Recess appointments could put Trump at odds with conservatives on the Supreme Court Trump’s intent to nominate loyalists to fill key Cabinet posts has set up a possible confrontation with the ...