Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is urging Democrats not to go easy on President-elect Trump's nominees this week and get them on record on key issues.

It's unclear who'll take over at the Pentagon and the military services when the top leaders all step down Monday as President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into office.

Some are expected to have smooth confirmation paths, like Sen. Marco Rubio for secretary of state, while others, like defense secretary pick Pete Hegseth, face headwinds.

Trump, who is set to be inaugurated and begin his second term in less than two weeks, has recently been escalating rhetoric concerning his desire to annex foreign territories like Greenland and ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., instructed his caucus ... Pete Hegseth's hearing to be Trump's Defense secretary will follow at 9:30 a.m. Some of the other Trump picks who will ...

Trump and Musk, tapped to run a new Department of Government Efficiency, have floated a variety of ideas to reform Pentagon purchasing, such as ditching the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter in favor of drones.

Neither Lara Trump nor Vivek Ramaswamy will join the Senate. But it’s likely the president-elect didn’t really go to the mat for their appointments.

Donald Trump’s controversial nominee could soon be confirmed by Republicans to lead the Department of Defense.

Three days ahead of Trump’s return to the White House, many of his most prominent Cabinet choices have sailed relatively unscathed through their hearings and are poised to win confirmation as Republican senators rallied around them and appeared largely unwilling to defy Trump’s wishes.

Senate confirmation hearings for the Trump cabinet continue on Thursday. They will include Doug Burgum for interior secretary, Scott Turner for housing secretary and Lee Zeldin for Environmental Protection Agency administrator at 10 a.m. Eastern, and Scott Bessent for Treasury secretary at 10:30 a.m.

One by one, President-elect Donald Trump's hoped-for Cabinet is falling into place. Defense Secretary pick Pete Hegseth was back on track after a fiery Senate confirmation hearing that probed his

John Fetterman has urged Democrats to “chill out” ahead of President-elect Donald Trump ... During Trump’s transition into his first term in 2016, Sen. Chuck Schumer urged fellow Democrats ...