President Donald Trump’s nominee for labor secretary faces an uncertain road to Senate confirmation as she attempts to court Democrats and assure Republicans scrutinizing her commitment to unions. Lori Chavez-DeRemer is the unusual example of a Trump nominee whom Republicans find more polarizing than Democrats.

Senator accuses Trump of executive order ‘blitzkrieg’ to ‘collapse our democracy’ - Donald Trump has been accused of carrying out a ‘blitzkrieg’ of executive orders in his first week in office

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) is among many Democrats who expressed concern after President Donald Trump announced a freeze on federal funds.

A Senate Democrat is blocking a streamlined process to vote on Trump's nominees, forcing the Senate to take lengthy procedural votes. This strategy was employed by Republicans while in the minority.

A funding freeze ordered by the Trump administration has sparked widespread confusion about its effects on government programs such as Medicaid.

Having leaned so hard on defending democracy during the campaign only to see voters narrowly choose the autocrats, Democrats were left without a unifying message, let alone a consensus messenger, to describe the new president and his allies.

On Tuesday, the president announced that he’d be giving federal workers a choice: return to the office full-time or quit with a buyout and severance pay through September 30. This is part of his effort to revamp the federal bureaucracy in his own image, and with his own supporters.

Trump continues his crackdown on illegal immigration and takes executive action on federal aid and DEI initiatives.

WASHINGTON ― The Donald Trump administration on Wednesday rescinded a a controversial memo pausing all federal grants that caused confusion and chaos across the government, a stunning reversal for the new president. HuffPost obtained the brief new memo canceling the previous one without explanation: “OMB Memorandum M-25-13 is rescinded.”

It’s one of the more obviously flawed ideas embraced by both President Donald Trump and his right-hand man Elon Musk: That government should be run like a business.

Chris Murphy Warns Of Trump’s ‘Fundamentally Dangerous’ Attempted Freeze Of Federal Grants On the Senate floor, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) decried President Trump's attempted freeze of federal grants.

Democrats were left dumbfounded Thursday after President Donald Trump twisted a deadly plane crash catastrophe into an opportunity to attack diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.