President-elect Donald Trump’s decision on Wednesday to tap now-former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz to serve as his attorney general raised eyebrows across the political spectrum. Gaetz, a four-term ...

With his Cabinet announcements, the president-elect is causing a civil-service exodus that may hobble federal infrastructure ...

Kentucky U.S. Sen. Rand Paul is preparing to lead the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

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

"Most fifth-graders who are taking their first government course ... Can those programs be shut down? During his first term, ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks with NPR's Michel Martin about his new book, The ABCs of Democracy, and what's ...

The FBI should be closed down and 1.5million government workers sacked under Donald Trump’s new cost-cutting department.

Donald Trump has pledged to “send all education work and needs back to the States.” Here’s what we know about his proposal to ...

Boosted in part by two pivotal Arizona races, Republicans have won a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, helping ...

Donald Trump said he would use the department to further his priorities. He also said he would close it. Both options would ...

Arizona voters on Election Day approved a sweeping ballot measure that would allow state and local law enforcement to arrest immigrants suspected of crossing the U.S.-Mexico border outside of ports of ...

Associated Press Democratic governors and state attorneys general are dusting off the playbooks from their offices’ pushback against President-elect Donald Trump’s policies, but they know it could be ...