The Donald Trump Cabinet Tracker
The Senate approved Ben Carson to serve as secretary of housing and urban development, and Rick Perry to lead the Department of Energy on Thursday.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP How Seriously Will Congress Investigate Trump's Wiretap Claim?
Indulging the president, top Republicans say they’ll look into his charge against Obama, but it won’t substantially alter their probe into Russian meddling in the election.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Conservative Uprising Against the Republican Healthcare Bill
The new GOP proposal drew immediate criticism from lawmakers who argued it doesn’t go far enough in erasing the Affordable Care Act.
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Jim Lo Scalzo / Reuters / Pool It's Do-or-Die for Repeal-and-Replace
The long-awaited Republican alternative to Obamacare is due out this week, but the scramble for votes has already begun.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Cloak-and-Dagger Republican Obamacare Repeal Operation
Senator Rand Paul heard GOP leaders were keeping their health care legislation hidden. So he went to try and find it.
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Alex Brandon / AP President Trump Meets the Congress
Republicans got what they wanted on Tuesday night, but lawmakers say the new president has a lot more to learn about the crowd on Capitol Hill.
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Olga R. Rodriguez / AP The Five Biggest Hurdles for Republicans Replacing Obamacare
Several critical policy questions remain unanswered about the emerging GOP plan: How much will it cost? How will they pay for it? How many people will be covered? And what will happen to the parts of the current law that people like the most?
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Andrew Harnik / AP The Democrats Have Their Chairman
Thomas Perez has defeated Representative Keith Ellison in a battle to lead the party in the age of Trump.
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Charlie Riedel / AP Kansas Republicans Sour on Their Tax-Cut Experiment
The state legislature nearly reversed Governor Sam Brownback’s signature policy after a voter rebellion. His economic legacy, one GOP lawmaker says, “is going down in flames.”
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Alex Brandon / AP 'We Are Turning the Clock Back'
Representative Luis Gutiérrez discusses last week’s immigration raids and how these deportations under President Trump are different from the ones he protested in the early years of the Obama administration.
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Brynn Anderson / AP The Strange Revelation of the Investigation of Alabama's Governor
Robert Bentley appointed a new state attorney general, who promptly disclosed to the public what Senator Luther Strange would not: The governor is under investigation.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Conservatives to GOP: Hurry Up and Repeal Obamacare
With progress stalled, hard-liners have a message for wavering Republicans in Congress: Buck up and get on with it.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Did Michael Flynn Tell the FBI the Truth?
The former national security adviser learns the hard way: It’s always the cover-up that gets you.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP The Resignation of Michael Flynn
President Trump’s national security adviser quit on Monday night after acknowledging he had misled Vice President Mike Pence about his conversations with the Russian ambassador.
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John Minchillo / AP The Federal Voting Agency Republicans Want to Kill
GOP lawmakers argue the Election Assistance Commission, created in 2002, has outlived its usefulness. Democrats say that in the age of hacking, it’s needed now more than ever.
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Brynn Anderson / AP The Curious Appointment of Senator Luther Strange
The successor to Attorney General Jeff Sessions won an appointment from the Alabama governor his office might have been investigating.
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"The recent flurry in the Senate” 1906 (J.S. ... A Brief History of the Senate Rule That Silenced Elizabeth Warren
The prohibition on impugning a fellow senator dates back to a fistfight in 1902. But it’s an edict that is rarely, if ever, enforced.
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Fred Prouser / Reuters More Trouble for Andrew Puzder
President Trump’s nominee for labor secretary—already stalled in the Senate—disclosed that his family employed an undocumented immigrant.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP How Republicans Might 'Repair' Obamacare Before Repealing It
Most GOP lawmakers want to demolish the health law right away. Senator Lamar Alexander wants to rescue it first.
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Mike Segar / Reuters President Trump's Missing Labor Secretary
While other Cabinet picks move through the Senate, Andrew Puzder's nomination has stalled. Will he ever get confirmed?
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Will the Senate Block Betsy DeVos?
Two Republican senators announce their opposition to President Trump’s nominee for education secretary. If all Democrats vote no, just one more GOP defection would defeat her.
