President Trump has announced he is canceling a scheduled Senate confirmation hearing for his Director of National Intelligence pick, Jay Clayton, as he ripped into Democrats for failing to hold up their end of a FISA deal.

June 17 (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate committee will vote next week on whether to advance the nomination of Brett Matsumoto, President Donald Trump's pick to head the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the agency that produces key economic data including monthly reports on the state of the job market and inflation.

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Wednesday barred Director of National Intelligence nominee Jay Clayton from showing up to his confirmation hearing just hours before an eager Senate was to fast-track his nomination.

The Senate launched a voting blitz on Thursday as it moves toward passing a $70 billion budget reconciliation package that would fund immigration enforcement agencies. Among the amendments up for a vote,

Senate Republicans might advance the funding bill without a $1 billion provision for the Secret Service that would go toward the White House ballroom project.

President Donald Trump finally got the best of Republican Gov. Brian Kemp in one Georgia Republican race on Tuesday — but voters rejected both of them in another.

President Donald Trump's derailment of a U.S. Senate plan to pass a key national ⁠security ⁠bill this week is only the latest example of a growing ⁠rift with Senate Republicans, who are more willing to defy the commander-in-chief in the run-up to the November midterm elections.

Trump abruptly pulled his nominee for the country's spy chief, Jay Clayton, and accused Democrats of reneging on renewing a key surveillance law.