Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) put the procedural wheels in motion to confirm embattled secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth by the end of the week. Senate Republicans are moving ahead quickly on Hegseth’s nomination despite an affidavit from his former sister-in-law obtained by Senate Democrats that accuses him of having an alcohol problem

Many Republican senators, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), laid out the case for moving first on a package including border security, energy provisions and defense. They argued it ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson and other top leaders recommitted to passing border, tax and energy policies in "one, big beautiful bill" — as Trump himself has called for — while senators said they planned to continue down a two-bill track, which they said had the potential to deliver much quicker legislative victories to the incoming president.

With Donald Trump's agenda at stake, the top Republican leaders are divided on fundamental questions of strategy.

Republican congressional leaders huddled with President Donald Trump on Tuesday in search of a clear path forward to make sweeping changes to the country’s border security, energy policy and tax code,

When I asked Speaker Mike Johnson about Senate Majority Leader John Thune at a POLITICO Live ... wrote lengthy texts to Senate Budget Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas ...

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday made his first visit to the Capitol of the new year and new Congress, meeting with Senate Republicans to discuss the party’s legislative agenda.

Barring a few exceptions, Senate Republicans on Tuesday largely deflected or altogether avoided questions about President Donald Trump’s broad clemency for over 1,500 defendants who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan.

By the end of the week, Republicans will have more nominees ready for floor action: Committees are set to vote on former Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.) to be Transportation secretary, Lee Zeldin to be EPA administrator and Doug Burgum to be Interior secretary, among others

Trump has worn his party down, and few events crystallize it like the GOP’s muted -- and in some cases positive -- response.

President Trump’s inauguration was attended by some of the richest and most powerful people in the world, including members of Congress, captains of the tech industry, and justices on the Supreme

U.S. Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) recently reintroduced the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, which would allow individuals with concealed carry privileges in t