With President-elect Trump building his Cabinet, the idea of recess appointments has been floated, but what are they and how ...

As President-elect Donald Trump moves to set up a more forceful presidency than in his first term, he is choosing loyalists for his cabinet and considering a tool known as recess appointments to skip ...

President-elect Trump has demanded on X that Senate Republican leadership "must agree to Recess Appointments (in the Senate!), without which we will not ...

President-elect Donald Trump wants the Senate to bypass approval for his Cabinet choices. How is that possible? We'll explain ...

President-elect Donald Trump has declared a strong intention to use recess appointments in his next term. What are recess ...

President-elect Donald Trump is considering recess appointments to skip over Senate confirmations for some of the most ...

The Trump team is reportedly exploring a never-used clause in the Constitution that might allow a president to adjourn ...

Trump's use of recess appointments would bypass the Senate confirmation process for some of the most powerful positions in ...

Some members of the Cabinet, like vice president and White House chief of staff, do not need Senate approval. But most of ...

They are outlined in the Constitution’s Recess Appointment Clause, which states that “the president shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate.” ...

Eisenhower made the appointment unilaterally, in accordance with the Constitution’s Recess Appointments Clause. Brennan was confirmed after the new Congress convened in 1957.