President-elect Donald Trump wants to close the Department of Education. This article examines how a closure would impact ...

Republicans have won enough seats to control the U.S. House, completing the party’s sweep into power and securing their hold ...

Lawmakers in the House and Senate are set to elect their leaders on Wednesday after Republicans scored a trifecta — winning ...

Republicans are on the brink of maintaining their House majority—and winning control of Washington for at least the next two years under a unified government—with 11 races left to be called as of ...

The success of the G.O.P. push to keep the majority suggests that it paid no political price for the chaos and paralysis of ...

It comes despite a tumultuous term for the House GOP marked by fierce public infighting over government spending and the ...

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) was tapped by President-elect Trump to serve as attorney general. Why it matters: The highly ...

Trump wants to not just shake up but eliminate the federal education bureaucracy and send it back to the states. Students ...

The new agreement raises that threshold to nine. The conservative House Freedom Caucus and governing-focused GOP Main Street ...

Johnson was also unanimously selected to remain House speaker next year in a House GOP meeting Wednesday ... such as keeping ...

The agreement would increase the threshold that allowed a single member to trigger a no-confidence vote to remove the speaker.

Republicans are giddy and preparing for at least two years with a trifecta. Democrats are reassessing their losses and ...