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

President-elect Donald Trump said the next Senate majority leader should allow the president to make recess appointments. What are they? Photo from Ian Hutchinson, UnSplash President-elect Donald ...

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

President-elect Trump has urged the next leader of Senate Republicans to support him in making recess appointments as three prominent GOP members are battling it out to succeed their leader ...

When President Dwight Eisenhower appointed William Brennan to the Supreme Court in 1956, the Senate was in recess. Eisenhower made the appointment unilaterally, in accordance with the Constitution ...

To keep the government staffed, the Constitution allows the president to fill vacancies while the Senate is in recess, but those commissions expire at the end of the next session of Congress.

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday said Senate Republicans’ next leader must embrace so-called “recess appointments ... in a post to the social media network X.

President-elect Donald Trump’s call for so-called “recess appointments” of Cabinet members and other officials is the first loyalty test that Senate Republicans are facing as they prepare to ...

On Sunday, he stepped into the conversation, demanding in a Truth Social post that anyone seeking the position as leader "must agree to Recess Appointments." Recess appointments enable a president ...

This is designed to serve as a form of checks and balances on the power of the presidency. A recess appointment, however, allow presidents to install their nominee to the position while the Senate ...

Today, Trump tweeted: Any Republican Senator seeking the coveted LEADERSHIP position in the United States Senate must agree to Recess Appointments (in the Senate!), without which we will not be ...