For all the heartburn over recess appointments to confirm President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, the Senate is breezing through even the most controversial nominees thanks to limited Republican opposition.

Senate Republicans on Wednesday fired the opening salvo in the battle to implement President Trump’s agenda by advancing a budget resolution focused on immigration and military priorities, putting House Republicans on the back foot as the two chambers race to control the process.

As GOP hardliners spent the weekend pushing party leaders to cut deeper into Medicaid in an effort to advance Donald Trump’s tax and border agenda, swing-district Republicans have been warning the president directly that it would cost him control of the House.

S.D., has come out in support of a Senate GOP effort to move out in front of their House colleagues on the crucial budget reconciliation process.

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension Committee set the stage for workforce reforms under the Trump administration. In a speech to members of his committee,

President Donald Trump got his two former progressive Democratic Cabinet picks confirmed with little Republican dissent this week despite early predictions that they would have trouble getting through a GOP-controlled Senate.