Past efforts to shrink the federal bureaucracy, including basic things like selling off unused government buildings, have ...

The president-elect who is 78 years old is slated to be the oldest president in U.S. history when he's inaugurated next month ...

Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears of Virginia could make history next year as the nation's first Black woman to win election ...

A look at the numbers, and how fraught and riven the next two years could be for President-elect Trump and the GOP.

Another message is that the GOP has about a year to get anything done. The party is likely to lose the House in 2026, if midterm history is any guide, and the partisan Senate map is challenging.

The GOP will operate with one of the smallest congressional majorities in history while contending with major deadlines like averting a government shutdown as early as March and a potentially ...

The GOP could control the lower chamber with just ... A 217-215 divide would tie the closest margin in House history, last seen during the 65th Congress (1917-1919) when Democrats essentially ...

That slim edge is already one of the closest in history. And it is set to narrow ... chart lofty goals for the next two years, when the GOP will have control of all levers of power in Washington.