Latest news and live updates as the Trump administration prepares for office next week. Follow live as Senate confirmation hearings continue for attorney general pick Pam Bondi.

Latest news and live updates as the Trump administration prepares for office next week. Follow live as Senate confirmation hearings continue for attorney general pick Pam Bondi.

If Russell Vought is confirmed as Office of Management and Budget director, he will continue to enact and accelerate the radical, sweeping agenda he began to implement in that same position during ...

Nominees for top posts in President-elect Donald Trump’s administration are getting ready for the Senate’s confirmation process.

Russell Vought testifies before the Senate Budget Committee on his nomination to be director of the Office of Management and Budget, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 22, 2025. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) Two days after President ...

Former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of the Interior, speaks during a confirmation hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources ...

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved Interior secretary nominee Doug Burgum 18-2. Democratic Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Mazie Hirono of Hawaii were the dissenters.

Democratic lawmakers grilled President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on a series of issues Wednesday, ranging from abortion to the constitutionality of ...

The South Dakota governor will oversee a sprawling agency that is essential to national security and a clampdown on illegal immigration.

Hegseth received a bachelor's degree in political science in 2003, where he also participated in the Army ROTC and published a campus publication titled The Princeton Tory. Hegseth later attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard ...

One of Trump’s picks is currently an evangelical pastor: Southern Baptist Scott Turner, an associate pastor at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, was tapped to be Trump’s secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

A slate of President Trump’s Cabinet nominees have appeared before senators in recent days for key hearings on their road to confirmation. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) was the first to be confirmed,