President-elect Donald Trump has announced his nominations for his Cabinet, but his proposal for confirming them breaks longstanding norms.

Although Republicans are set to take control of the Senate in January, President-elect Donald Trump has demanded that the chamber suspend its power to confirm nominations and instead go out of session so that he can use “recess appointments” to install at least some administration officials,

President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to use a process known as "recess appointments" if Republicans in the U.S. Senate reject some of the more controversial picks for his incoming second administration.