President-elect Donald Trump is considering a former GOP lieutenant governor of California and a former USDA official from his first term to serve as his next agriculture secretary, according to four people familiar with the transition conversations. Abel Maldonado served

House Republican leaders laid out their biggest legislative priorities for next year in a closed-door Tuesday meeting, including funding the U.S.-Mexico border wall, cutting various Democratic policies and spending programs enacted under Joe Biden, and locking in Donald Trump’s tax

Despite coming up short in their fight for the majority, House Democrats aren’t tossing their leaders aside. The caucus opted to keep their top slate of leaders in Tuesday’s party elections, with every single top Democratic leader reelected without opposition.

Two seasoned Defense Department insiders are in the running to be the Pentagon's No. 2, and names of other possible nominees are swirling as the Trump transition team looks to fill top posts in the Army, Navy and Air Force.

The House Ethics Committee is scheduled to meet Wednesday. And if members vote on whether to share their investigative findings about attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz, it would only take one Republican to trigger the release of the report. The