The Republican-controlled Senate plans to work overtime to approve President Donald Trump’s cabinet, including “nights, weekends, recesses,” according to Senate Majority Leader John Thune. Senate Democrats plan to slow down the process as much as possible – their only choice to disrupt the proceedings because it takes only a majority vote to approve nominees.

President Donald Trump met with a small contingent of the most politically endangered House Republicans as the party struggles to agree on a strategy for implementing the tax cuts that it promised voters.