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 ...

GOP lawmakers should just give Trump his recess appointments. Don't bother the poor man with things he hates, like 'norms' ...

Governor Monday Okpebholo of Edo state has approved the six new appointments including Emmanuel Ehidiamen Okoebor as ...

With the president-elect adding more cabinet members to his administration, here’s a look at the spots he still needs to fill ...

Here's a list of people President-elect Donald Trump has chosen for critical Cabinet posts and top White House jobs.

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

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 ...

One of the chief responsibilities of the president is to make appointments across the federal government — including to cabinet-level positions. Each new president makes roughly 4,000 political ...

A new federal government agency hasn't been created since the George W. Bush administration in 2002 when Congress passed The ...