The President-elect may appoint extreme cabinet members without congressional scrutiny, writes Sen. Chris Coons.

As the Trump-Vance administration shapes up and selects its Cabinet and advisers, the looming Senate confirmation process, ...

With some of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet and other presumptive nominees facing an uncertain path to confirmation, ...

The use of recess appointments to install members of Donald Trump's Cabinet would circumvent a key Senate process, ...

Now, in fact, it's likely that Republicans will toy with those same decisions in Trump's ridiculous recess appointments plot. Politics has a way of coming full circle. Team Trump has proposed that ...

Trump’s intent to nominate loyalists to fill key Cabinet posts has set up a possible confrontation with the Senate.

For all the drama generated every four years by Cabinet appointments, defeat of a nominee by a vote in the Senate is ...

President-elect Donald Trump has said he may use temporary recess appointments to bypass the Senate confirmation process for ...

With congressional Republican leadership on board and a mandate-level victory in the presidential election, recess ...

Trump's cabinet nominations require Senate confirmation, and despite a GOP majority, he may struggle to get his picks ...

The Trump transition team is proposing that the president-elect forgo the regular advice-and-consent process and use his ...

Trump and his Republican allies are talking about going around the Senate and using temporary recess appointments, which last no more than two years. Invoking that authority could result in a ...