Kash Patel won Senate confirmation as FBI director by a 51-49 vote, putting a fierce loyalist of President Trump at the helm of the nation’s premier law enforcement agency amid major questions ...

“My prediction is if you vote for Kash Patel, more than any other confirmation vote you make, you will come to regret this one to your grave,” Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut said ...

The vote followed a contentious confirmation hearing process ... any knowledge of discussions about potential firings, but a letter from Durbin last week that cited information that he said ...

Here’s the Senate confirmation hearing schedule so far, with links to how to watch the hearings online, followed by the full list of Trump Cabinet picks. 10:00 a.m. EST: Labor secretary nominee ...

To senators Jon Husted and Bernie Moreno: your recent votes to confirm the crackpots nominated by the orange felon have made it clear that you would vote to confirm an equal number of corpses if ...

“In these communities, there is no other ‘choice.’” I just got out of Linda McMahon's confirmation hearing, and one of my favorite lines was by @markey.senate.gov, when he called DOGE the "Department ...

Every U.S. Senate Republican voted to confirm Russell Vought, an author of Project 2025, as director of the Office of Management and Budget. Vought has tremendous power to affect the national budget ...

After several weeks of high-profile hearings, many of the president’s 22 Cabinet or Cabinet-level nominees have had a smooth pathway to confirmation in the Senate. Pete Hegseth, one of Trump’s ...

Sen. Mitch McConnell fell down again Wednesday, this time on stairs inside the U.S. Capitol moments after a confirmation vote. McConnell, 82, fell while walking out of the Senate chamber after ...