Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump are Washington’s newest odd couple.
The two butted heads several times during this year’s presidential campaign, with McConnell at times admonishing Trump and at other moments distancing himself from his own party’s nominee. Now the men make up perhaps the most important GOP partnership in Washington.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus will be President-elect Donald Trump’s chief of staff, while campaign CEO Stephen Bannon will be chief strategist and senior counselor to the president.
In a “60 Minutes” interview Sunday night, President-elect Donald Trump addressed the harassment of Latinos and Muslims by people supporting him. “I will say this, and I will say right to the cameras: ‘Stop it.’”
President-elect Donald Trump has to decide whether he is going to keep all of his controversial vows on counterterrorism and national security, some of which will be almost impossible to implement.
Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) say they are willing to work with President-elect Trump, but they are also preparing for war.
Congressional Republicans face internal divisions over how far to go in repealing and replacing ObamaCare, one of their top political priorities of the past six years, without disrupting the lives of millions of Americans.
The right-wing opinion and news site championed Donald J. Trump; its chairman, who helped run the campaign, was named chief White House strategist and senior counselor.
It was supposed to be his grand valedictory tour. Now President Barack Obama must use his last major trip abroad to try to calm shocked world leaders about the outcome of the U.S. election, and what comes next when Donald Trump is president.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the surprisingly strong challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, sat down Sunday with USA TODAY’s Capital Download to talk about last week’s election stunner, the future of the Democratic Party and his new book, being published Tuesday by Thomas Dunne Books, Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In.