The election of Republican John Thune of South Dakota as Senate majority leader tasks a key ally of Mitch McConnell with ...

Eric Hovde, the Wisconsin Republican who nearly unseated Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin, acknowledged this week that he lost ...

Republicans have secured their monopoly on power in Donald Trump’s new Washington, retaining their majority in the House of ...

President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday he’s selected former Democratic congresswoman-turned Trump supporter Tulsi ...

On the heels of the general election last week, there’s another important vote on tap this Wednesday in Washington that will ...

The Republican Party has managed to maintain control of the U.S. House of Representatives, unofficial results show, securing ...

Donald Trump will begin his second term as president the same way he began his first—with Republicans controlling both the ...

CNN anchor Dana Bash on Wednesday said she couldn’t think of a single “example” of why governing might be tougher for ...

The GOP sweep sharply diminishes any hope for Democrats to curtail Trump’s sway over trillions of dollars in expiring tax ...

While Johnson praised Trump for actions during his first administration, as he’d done during an October interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, lauding the president for providing Javelin missiles and for ...

[Photo/Agencies] WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday won Republican nomination ... with the party securing at least 218 seats -- the threshold to maintain majority in the 435-member ...

Donald Trump will have almost complete control over the levers of US government now that Republicans have added the House of ...