As Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell engineered many of the wins of Donald Trump’s first term, but he was right Friday ...

Former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell cast a surprise vote Friday night against Pete Hegseth, President Trump’s ...

We shouldn’t expect McConnell to be the next John McCain or Mitt Romney, but his vote Friday against Pete Hegseth previewed ...

Readers criticize the vote on the defense secretary nomination. Also: President Trump and tariffs; silencing health officials ...

As the dust settles on the fight over Pete Hegseth's nomination, his confirmation is emblematic of a larger truth about the state of Republican politics.

McConnell’s vote against Hegseth was no profile in courage, but let’s hope he has the backbone to also oppose Robert Kennedy ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services, once pitched the idea to ...

Thanks to the tie-breaking vote from Vice President JD Vance, Pete Hegseth was confirmed as the Trump Administration’s ...

Vice President Vance defended new Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, calling him a “disrupter” who will prove “incredibly ...

After a few GOP senators, including McConnell, voted against Hegseth for defense secretary, the Senate narrowly voted to ...

"McConnell spent his life creating this crisis...Only at the end does he find a conscience," political commentator Wajahat Ali wrote.

More Trump nominees with potentially rocky paths to confirmation face hearings in the Senate this week, including Tulsi ...