WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate confirmed Pete Hegseth as the nation's defense secretary Friday in a dramatic late-night vote, swatting back questions about his qualifications to lead the Pentagon amid allegations of heavy drinking and aggressive behavior toward women.

Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump’s contentious nominee for defense secretary, narrowly cleared a key procedural hurdle in the Senate on Thursday. Republicans showed they were undeterred by allegat

With his confirmation at stake, Pete Hegseth is working the phones ahead of a Senate vote to shore up support to become the nation’s defense secretary. The Senate late Friday

Pressed for reactions to Donald Trump’s pardons for Jan. 6 criminals, including violent felons, many congressional Republicans have at least tried to adopt a forward-thinking posture. For example, Republican Sen.

Many Republicans on Capitol Hill do not agree with President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon and commute sentences for more than 1,500 people charged with crimes related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration speech could be a chance to reunite the nation eight years after he declared "the American carnage" must end.

The Senate is expected to confirm Marco Rubio as secretary of state within hours of Trump’s swearing-in, but the rest of the president’s Cabinet is going to be a grind. Trump’s legislative agenda is also off to a slow start, although Congress will send him an immigration crackdown to sign, possibly by week’s end.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is surrounded by a very different Washington than he was eight years ago. Many Republicans thought his political career was over after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. But he came back stronger than ever — and brought Washington with him.

“This American carnage stops right here and stops right now,” Trump said in his speech. He has repeated those themes throughout the last eight years. “It was a very jarring moment,” King said.

Around this time two years ago, as the Republican majority in the House got to work, among the earliest priorities for the party was a new, GOP-friendly investigation into the Jan. 6 attack. The endeavor would be led by Loudermilk, who faced some awkward questions about a controversial Capitol tour the day before the riot.

The Capitol Hill Republicans who pushed aggressively to ban TikTok have gone almost totally silent on President Donald Trump’s unilateral decision not to enforce the ban. Asked directly by POLITICO about Trump’s executive order to grant TikTok a reprieve in defiance of the law passed by Congress,