U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney (2nd District), U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes (5th District), Gov. Ned Lamont and other government officials gathered to discuss the legality of President Donald Trump's memo pausing federal funding on Wednesday.

Wednesday’s reversal created both temporary relief and additional confusion. CT Democrats characterized it as a small, incremental victory.

Donald Trump’s move to pause trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans awakened widespread Democratic resistance to the new president’s second term that was felt Tuesday on Capitol Hill, in governors’ offices and in the race to helm the party’s national committee.

President Donald Trump’s administration issued a memo Monday ordering widespread federal assistance to be temporarily paused, as Trump and his allies have argued he can block government funds that Congress has already authorized, despite a federal law forbidding it.

Michigan's U.S. senators voted in committee against Trump's picks to lead the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, and White House budget office, Russell Vought.

US Sen. Richard Blumenthal challenged President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) over his past proposals to reduce or eliminate benefits for certain veterans to save money in the Veterans Affairs (VA) system.

The Senate on Monday evening unanimously confirmed Marco Rubio as secretary of state, providing President Trump the first member of his Cabinet on Inauguration Day.

Will You Release That Money?’: Blumenthal Grills Trump’s OMB Director Nominee On Ukraine Aid At Wednesday's Senate Homeland Security Committee, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) questioned Russell Vought,

From the moment he rode down that golden escalator in Trump Tower nearly a decade ago, Donald J. Trump reshaped the nation’s politics — and he continues to do so today with his hodgepodge of Cabinet picks that includes billionaires and media darlings, eccentrics, and rhetorical bomb-throwers.

Pam Bondi was pressed about the 2020 election and Trump's influence over the Justice Department, while Marco Rubio struck a more measured tone on the Russia-Ukraine war.

Vought, a co-author of Project 2025 who served as budget director in Donald Trump's first term, has signaled he will take a more aggressive approach to helping the president-elect carry out his agenda of shrinking the federal government.

While Trump sought to ban TikTok in his first term, he has since changed his position, searching for ways to save it once he takes office. He has attributed a measure of his electoral success with young people to his popularity on the app, and invited TikTok’s CEO to attend his inauguration.