President Donald Trump‘s administration sought to tamp down confusion over Medicaid funding in the wake of Office of Management and Budget director Matthew Vaeth’s memorandum pausing federal grant funding.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune tells reporters gathered at a weekly news conference outside the chamber in the Capitol building that funding decisions are not unusual for a new Administration that is pausing to examine where and how money is being spent to ensure it aligns with the administration's plans,

The president has repeatedly discussed his desire to "retake" the Panama Canal and take possession of Greenland.

Thune's comments come as Trump is getting inaugurated on Jan. 20, with Trump planning to issue 10 executive orders on his first day in office.

But moving those nominees across the Senate floor will be no easy feat. It took two months to confirm the 15 department heads who made up President Joe Biden’s Cabinet. In 2017, Trump did not have his Cabinet in place until April 27, or three months after his inauguration.

Republicans are bending over backward to excuse Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons of the January 6 insurrectionists.

Vice President J.D. Vance was on hand to cast a tie-breaking vote, unusual in the Senate for Cabinet nominees, who typically win wider support.

President Donald Trump fired the inspectors general from more than a dozen federal agencies in a Friday night purge, according to a Trump administration official, paving the way for him to install his own picks overseeing the agencies.

President Donald Trump is expected to meet with House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Tuesday. Multiple sources told ABC News that the meetings will happen separately on Trump's first full day in office.

Senate Majority Leader Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., told a CNN reporter Monday he believes President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has a path to the 50 required votes for Senate confirmation.

Trump's actions were the latest step in his drive to overhaul Washington and erase the work of President Joe Biden's administration.

The Senate is heading toward a final vote on legislation that would require federal authorities to detain migrants accused of theft and violent crimes.