Trump's nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency Lee Zeldin will testify Thursday at 10 a.m. EST before the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee. Scott Turner, the nominee to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development ...

Housing and Urban Affairs Committee’s confirmation hearing for Scott Turner, Trump’s pick for housing secretary. She also questioned Lee Zeldin, Trump’s nominee to lead the Environmental ...

Day Four of the Trump administration opens in Washington, D.C. with a raft of Senate hearings including Trump's picks for the Departments of Energy and Interior as well as the EPA and VA. Also on the docket,

Lee Zeldin said ... Agency, a department likely to play a central role in President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to slash federal regulations and promote oil and gas development.

Laken Riley Act: President Trump signed his first bill into law, and it closely tracked his agenda on immigration. The bill directs the authorities to detain and deport immigrants who are accused — not yet convicted — of specific crimes if they are in the country illegally. Read more ›

Will the Senate GOP confirm controversial picks like Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr.? Here’s the hearings schedule and list of who’s been confirmed.

President Donald Trump said he’s signing an executive order to instruct the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to prepare a 30,000-person migrant facility at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.

Two New York Republicans are headed to the Trump cabinet with Rep. Elise Stefanik as United Nations ambassador and Lee Zeldin as EPA administrator.

The Senate has confirmed five members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet since he assumed office on Jan. 20, with five more ready for floor action in the coming days. The pace is faster than in 2017, the first time Trump had Republican control of Washington. By this point in his first term, only two were confirmed.

Trump has embraced the ultra wealthy as well as tariffs and other policies that could stoke the inflation he criticized as a candidate.

President Donald Trump chose from his most loyal supporters when he created his Cabinet and appointed others to key roles within his administration.