An incoming Trump administration has signaled its intention to ransack the civil service. But the government needs reform, ...

President-elect Donald Trump opened his transition back to the White House this week with a flurry of personnel announcements ...

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Donald Trump has united the Republican party. He doesn’t face purity tests from his evangelical right flank like Democratic ...

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The president-elect is testing the loyalty of Republican in Congress, leaving even his close allies nervous about the ...

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To allow Trump to make the appointments, Republican senators would have to pass a motion of adjournment with a simple ...

After one of the most chaotic and least productive U.S. House sessions in modern history, voters made a surprising choice in ...

One-time rising Republican Party rising star Kelly Ayotte is back, after her convincing victory last week to succeed Chris ...

Even amid a unified GOP government, Trump will have to face intra-party detractors when he begins his second term in January.