Since launching in 2021, America First Policy Institute has been known colloquially around Washington, D.C., as Donald Trump's "Cabinet in waiting."

Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F. Kennedy, and Linda McMahon are expected to have their senate confirmation hearings next week to join President Trump's cabinet. One cabinet pick, Sen. Rubio, has been confirmed as the Secretary of State by the US Senate by unanimous consent.

With Vice President JD Vance and other allies in power, an emergent Catholic right expands political horizons and raises doubts about church unity.

Will the Senate GOP confirm controversial picks like Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr.? Here’s the hearings schedule and list of who’s been confirmed.

The Senate has confirmed five members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet since he assumed office on Jan. 20, with five more ready for floor action in the coming days. The pace is faster than in 2017, the first time Trump had Republican control of Washington. By this point in his first term, only two were confirmed.

President Donald Trump's second White House is looking a lot like the inside of Mar-a-Lago, with extremely wealthy Americans taking key roles in his Republican administration.

More of President Donald Trump's picks for his cabinet are expected to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate in the coming days after the Republican-controlled

More of President Donald Trump's picks for his cabinet are expected to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate in the coming days after the Republican-controlled chamber began approving them last week. Hearings for other nominees are scheduled for this week as well,

Democrats, as the minority party, have helped confirm Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA Director John Ratcliffe in bipartisan votes to Trump’s national security team within days of his return to the White House. But Democrats gravely opposed to Hegseth have little power to stop him, and instead have resorted to dragging out the process.

Linda McMahon knows education and business. Our board makes nonsensical budgets that last year produced the some of the state’s worst high school graduation rates. It hired a consultant to teach ...

John Ratcliffe was sworn in as the 25th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency according to a press release on January 23, 2025. Vice President JD Vance administered the official oath of office in a ceremony at the White House. Director Ratcliffe is ...

FILE - Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe waits to board Marine One with President Donald Trump on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Dec. 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick ...