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Dec 05, 2024
The tycoons in charge of President-elect Donald J. Trump's amorphous government efficiency initiative made the rounds on Capitol Hill, bashing debt but revealing little about how they will tackle it.
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Dec 05, 2024
Steven J. Law's departure represents a changing of the guard for the super PAC and coincides with a new leader for Senate Republicans.
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Dec 05, 2024
Donald J. Trump's choice to lead the Pentagon said he would try to earn every vote so long as he remained the president-elect's pick, despite continued concern among Republican senators about his past conduct.
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Dec 05, 2024
If the party fails to see this, it will be the one left behind
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Dec 04, 2024
Pete Hegseth would not be the first.
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Dec 04, 2024
An interview with Senator Laphonza Butler, Democrat of California, during her final week in the Senate.
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Dec 04, 2024
At a congressional hearing on Wednesday, senators framed the tacked-on fees for passenger seats or bags as akin to extortion. Airline executives pushed back, saying they gave customers options.
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Dec 04, 2024
The president-elect appeared to be having serious conversations about picking Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida as Pete Hegseth, the current selection, dismissed the allegations against him.
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Dec 04, 2024
A larger debt and higher interest rates would cancel out the boost from keeping individual taxes lower, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found.
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Dec 04, 2024
President-elect Donald J. Trump was weighing his options for defense secretary, even as Pete Hegseth met with senators and took part in a high-profile interview.
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Dec 04, 2024
The criticism of the president's pardon of his son from within his own party underscores how far gone his relationship with Democrats in Congress already was.
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Dec 04, 2024
Donald Trump está explorando sus opciones tras las polémicas de Pete Hegseth. Ron DeSantis está entre los posibles nominados a pesar de su relación conflictiva con el presidente electo.
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Dec 04, 2024
President-elect Donald J. Trump is weighing his options, even as Pete Hegseth meets with senators to muster support. Accusations of past misconduct have threatened his nomination from the start.
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Dec 04, 2024
Only a handful of Republicans are needed to stand up for the Senate's right to advise and consent on nominations.
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Dec 03, 2024
Michael R. Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor and a public health advocate, is asking Senate Republicans to persuade President-elect Donald J. Trump to "rethink" Kennedy's nomination.
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Dec 03, 2024
Lawmakers in the president's own party, many of them moderates, said his decision to pardon his son was selfish and would further damage Americans' waning faith in democracy and the rule of law.
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Dec 03, 2024
The true danger is almost less about the pick and more about what it says about Trump's approach to his second term.
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Dec 02, 2024
La persistencia del presidente electo en hacer elecciones poco convencionales para su gabinete revela lo decidido que está a rodearse de seguidores leales en los que pueda confiar para llevar a cabo su agenda.
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Dec 02, 2024
In a letter, the Democratic leader said members of his party would work with Republicans to consider the president-elect's nominees — but asserted they should undergo traditional Senate vetting.
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Dec 02, 2024
President-elect Donald J. Trump's decision to install Kash Patel as F.B.I. director indicates that he remains undaunted by Washington resistance as he appoints ideological warriors, conspiracy theorists and even relatives.
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Dec 02, 2024
The Senate can take steps to remain an independent power center in Trump's Washington.
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Dec 01, 2024
Several lawmakers expressed support on Sunday for the president-elect's plan to install a loyalist who has vowed to use the position to exact revenge on adversaries.
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Dec 01, 2024
Several lawmakers expressed support on Sunday for the president-elect's plan to install a loyalist who has vowed to use the position to exact revenge on adversaries.
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Dec 01, 2024
Everyone benefits from government weather forecasting. Republicans have the chance to make it better.
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Dec 01, 2024
President-elect Donald J. Trump is threatening to challenge the institution's historic role, and the Constitution, with his prospective nominees and threats to push the boundaries of executive authority.
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Nov 30, 2024
Business owners say card transaction fees are a growing monthly expense, one often passed to consumers. They're cheering efforts to lower them.
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Nov 29, 2024
With fewer and fewer checks on presidential power, we need rigorous congressional consideration of the incoming president's team.
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Nov 27, 2024
The agriculture and nutrition measure was last updated in 2018 and originally expired two years ago. Farmers fear the Trump administration's priorities will eclipse theirs next year.
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Nov 27, 2024
The agriculture and nutrition measure was last updated in 2018 and originally expired two years ago. Farmers fear the Trump administration's priorities will eclipse theirs next year.
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Nov 26, 2024
Get live Senate results and maps from the battleground states in the 2024 election.
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Nov 26, 2024
Donald Trump will try to fill every judgeship that Democrats leave open.
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Nov 25, 2024
The longest-serving Senate leader is relinquishing his post in the next Congress and planning to use his influence in ways that could put him at odds with President-elect Donald J. Trump.
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Nov 25, 2024
The longest-serving Senate leader is relinquishing his post in the next Congress and planning to use his influence in ways that could put him at odds with President-elect Donald J. Trump.
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Nov 24, 2024
The once and future president's constitutional gimmicks are embarrassingly transparent.
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Nov 24, 2024
Readers respond to a column by David Brooks. Also: Blaming the Green Party for a Democratic loss in the Senate race in Pennsylvania; a sitcom cabinet.
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Nov 24, 2024
The once and future president's constitutional gimmicks are embarrassingly transparent.
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Nov 23, 2024
After eight years in the Senate as a moderate Democrat, he took a leftward turn toward "new populism" in a failed shot at the presidency in 1976.
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Nov 23, 2024
Some in the party are considering alternative ways of assessing the federal budget as they prepare to extend temporary tax cuts passed in 2017.
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Nov 22, 2024
The second Trump administration appears likely to inherit broader powers to force American service providers to help a warrantless wiretapping program.
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Nov 22, 2024
The Senate majority leader is staying out of Republican turmoil over the more contentious picks for strategic reasons.
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Nov 22, 2024
He played on fears of immigrants and economic worries to defeat Vice President Kamala Harris. His victory signaled the advent of isolationism, sweeping tariffs and score settling.
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Nov 22, 2024
Mr. Gaetz has consistently denied the allegations of sexual misconduct and drug use, but his prospective nomination ran into trouble in the Senate.
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Nov 22, 2024
The Constitution is not a grant of power for a king.
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Nov 21, 2024
Mr. McCormick, a Republican former hedge-fund executive, toppled Mr. Casey, a three-term Democrat, in one of the nation's top Senate races and biggest 2024 upsets.
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Nov 21, 2024
Mr. Casey, a three-term Democrat, bowed out of his race against David McCormick, a Republican who led narrowly amid a recount of votes in one of the nation's top Senate races.
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Nov 21, 2024
Some Republican senators, who will consider his nomination to be defense secretary, shrugged off the accusations and defended him.
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Nov 21, 2024
Some Republican senators, who will consider his nomination to be defense secretary, shrugged off the accusations and defended him.
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Nov 21, 2024
Trump failed to push Republicans past their red line.
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Nov 21, 2024
The vaunted chamber's degradation preceded him. But he may trash it once and for all.
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Nov 21, 2024
Impuestos atrasados, consumo de marihuana y niñeras indocumentadas descalificaron a anteriores elecciones presidenciales para altos cargos. Algunos de los candidatos del presidente electo enfrentan mayores cuestionamientos.
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Nov 21, 2024
Plus, a $6.2 million piece of fruit.
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Nov 20, 2024
Back taxes, youthful pot smoking and undocumented nannies scuttled previous presidential choices. Some of President-elect Donald J. Trump's candidates face bigger questions.
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Nov 20, 2024
After a victorious Senate campaign, Ruben Gallego thinks others can follow his lead by signaling that they hear Latino voters' economic pain. But repeating his success might not be so easy.
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Nov 20, 2024
Back taxes, youthful pot smoking and undocumented nannies scuttled previous presidential choices. Some of President-elect Donald J. Trump's candidates face bigger questions.
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Nov 19, 2024
The Constitution allows the president to circumvent the Senate and put appointees in place while the chamber is in recess, a loophole created back when Capitol commutes involved long treks by horse.
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Nov 19, 2024
The Constitution allows the president to circumvent the Senate and put appointees in place while the chamber is in recess, a loophole created back when Capitol commutes involved long treks by horse.
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Nov 18, 2024
The president-elect is taking a flood-the-zone approach to his cabinet nominations, betting that the Senate won't dare to turn them all down.
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Nov 18, 2024
The president-elect is taking a flood-the-zone approach to his cabinet nominations, betting that the Senate won't dare to turn them all down.
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Nov 18, 2024
The president said the aid was "urgently needed" as emergency programs face funding shortfalls amid the devastation after Hurricanes Helene and Milton and a string of other natural disasters.
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Nov 17, 2024
As a Senate recount plays out, at least four counties are ignoring an order from the State Supreme Court that undated or misdated mail ballots cannot be counted.
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Nov 16, 2024
The right-wing mudslinger built his brand on mercilessly trolling his adversaries, including some Republican senators, on TV and social media. Now he needs their votes to be confirmed.
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Nov 15, 2024
Es incierto si el Senado ratificará a Kennedy, un escéptico de las vacunas y quien tiene opiniones poco ortodoxas sobre la medicina.
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Nov 15, 2024
The president-elect has selected several allies in Congress, along with a current governor, to join his administration.
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Nov 15, 2024
The House speaker said revealing the findings of a yearslong inquiry into allegations of sexual misconduct and drug use would be a ‘terrible breach of protocol' because Matt Gaetz had resigned.
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Nov 15, 2024
The last five presidents have all had periods where both the House and the Senate were in friendly hands — but most lasted just two years before the backlash set in.
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Nov 15, 2024
Political independence and ethics are the bedrock of our armed forces. Today, I am concerned that both are in danger.
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Nov 15, 2024
Political independence and ethics are the bedrock of our armed forces. Today, I am concerned that both are in danger.
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Nov 15, 2024
Mr. Kim will be the first Korean American senator. Nowhere in the United States is his community's imprint more clear than in northern New Jersey.
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Nov 15, 2024
Trump's choice to lead the Justice Department is a flagrant provocation that is, like a pulpy B movie, so bad it's good.
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Nov 14, 2024
Las designaciones del presidente electo para formar su gabinete demuestran su desprecio por un poder ejecutivo responsable.
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Nov 14, 2024
The president-elect's choice of combative loyalists who could have trouble being confirmed has raised constitutional questions about executive power and the Senate's prerogatives.
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Nov 14, 2024
Trump's choice to lead the Justice Department is a flagrant provocation that is, like a pulpy B movie, so bad it's good.
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Nov 14, 2024
Whether the Senate would confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic who has unorthodox views about medicine, is an open question.
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Nov 14, 2024
The president-elect's choice of combative loyalists who could have trouble being confirmed has raised constitutional questions about executive power and the Senate's prerogatives.
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Nov 14, 2024
President-elect Donald J. Trump's cabinet picks show that he prizes loyalty over experience and is fueled by retribution.
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Nov 14, 2024
Listen to our political round table on Donald J. Trump's first week as president-elect.
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Nov 14, 2024
Three extreme cabinet nominations demonstrate his contempt for a responsible executive branch.
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Nov 13, 2024
President-elect Donald J. Trump's cabinet picks show that he prizes loyalty over experience and is fueled by retribution.
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Nov 13, 2024
The South Dakota Republican failed in his first try for the Senate but came back to defeat a chamber leader. Now he will be the leader himself.
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Nov 13, 2024
Rick Scott, who would have agreed to Trump's idea of bypassing the Senate for nominations, lost his bid to become leader.
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Nov 13, 2024
Eric Hovde, who lost his Senate campaign, is the first prominent candidate to suggest his race was rigged. We fact-checked his case.
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Nov 13, 2024
Rick Scott, who would have agreed to Trump's idea of bypassing the Senate for nominations, lost his bid to become leader.
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Nov 13, 2024
Senator John Thune of South Dakota emerged victorious over a right-wing challenge from Senator Rick Scott of Florida.
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Nov 13, 2024
Plus, the streaming services you never knew about.
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Nov 12, 2024
The president-elect is to visit Capitol Hill on Wednesday as Republican senators elect a majority leader. His staffing decisions are already depleting the narrow majority the G.O.P. expects in the House.
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Nov 12, 2024
El congresista había aventajado en la mayoría de los sondeos a Lake, expresentadora de televisión y gran aliada de Trump.
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Nov 12, 2024
The three-term senator from Florida viciously criticized Donald J. Trump during the 2016 campaign but has since ingratiated himself and become a foreign policy adviser to Mr. Trump.
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Nov 12, 2024
The president-elect is to visit Capitol Hill on Wednesday as Republican senators elect a majority leader. His staffing decisions are already depleting the narrow majority the G.O.P. expects in the House.
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Nov 12, 2024
The three-term senator from Florida viciously criticized Donald J. Trump during the 2016 campaign but has since ingratiated himself and become a foreign policy adviser to Mr. Trump.
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Nov 12, 2024
With the House, Republicans would have full control of the federal government next year.
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Nov 12, 2024
The Supreme Court is largely to blame for the challenges it may face over the next four years.
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Nov 12, 2024
The Democratic congressman had led Ms. Lake, a former television anchor and bombastic Trump ally, in most polls.
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Nov 11, 2024
Advisers to the president-elect, who already has a strong hold on congressional Republicans, want him to tighten his grip by torpedoing the bid of the establishment front-runner for the post.
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Nov 11, 2024
Should we even call it a comeback?
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Nov 10, 2024
Senators Rick Scott, John Thune and John Cornyn quickly responded to President-elect Donald J. Trump's demand on social media, the latest example of his influence over Republican lawmakers.
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Nov 09, 2024
Coaxing aging Supreme Court justices to give up their power and status during a window of political opportunity can be a delicate endeavor.
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Nov 09, 2024
Ms. Rosen, the low-key incumbent, hung on, but the race was closer than expected amid President-elect Donald J. Trump's strength.
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Nov 08, 2024
Control of the House remains in the balance, and three Senate seats in swing states have yet to be called.
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Nov 08, 2024
The loss of the White House and the Senate majority will end Democrats' ability to fill judicial vacancies come January. They say they want to confirm as many as possible in the coming weeks.
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Nov 08, 2024
America's democracy will again be put to the test, and its government will veer sharply to the right. Kamala Harris and Democrats were dealt stunning defeats across the country.
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