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 ...

Several Republican senators have said they are not inclined to abdicate their "advice and consent" role in presidential ...

Donald Trump's extreme administration picks may face an uphill Senate confirmation battle, but they could be forced in through recess appointments.

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

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

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

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

President-elect Donald J. Trump is seeking to circumvent the long and drawn-out process of having to submit nominations to ...

The president-elect is contemplating taking up never-before-used presidential powers to create a separation of powers crisis ...

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