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Gov. Greg Abbott, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, business leaders and Texans tabbed for President Donald Trump’s cabinet gathered in ...

Sen. Cornyn talks about the Laken Riley Act that he expects President-Elect Donald Trump to sign when he takes office.

The House voted on an amended version of the Laken Riley Act on Wednesday, two weeks after it initially passed the bill.

The Laken Riley Act would require federal officials to detain immigrants who are in the country illegally and who are caught ...

Senators vetting the nomination of Pete Hegseth for defense secretary have received an affidavit from a former sister-in-law ...

John Cornyn and Ted Cruz describe themselves as committed Trump supporters, but they have also had their public fights with the president. Cruz and Trump were openly hostile in the 2016 GOP ...

Republicans pushed forward with Pete Hegseth’s nomination as secretary of defense on Wednesday even after a damaging report ...

Russia’s aggression in Ukraine has been a splitting point between Trump and the more hawkish Republican Senate conference. Last year, Trump blew up a deal to swap additional provisions for border ...

The Trump cabinet is taking shape as Republicans rush to confirm key nominees, but Democrats are raising concerns about some of the picks and working to slow the process.

Forty-six Democrats crossed party lines in voting to pass a bill requiring undocumented immigrants arrested for violent ...

This is the easiest way to unravel a constitutional democracy: You turn democracy against the constitution, by claiming that ...