Lee suggested that VP-elect JD Vance could play an influential role in Senate policy as Senate president. Utah Sen. Mike Lee is playing a major role in the debate over who will lead the U.S. Senate in 2025 as former President Donald Trump demands that the future majority leader helps fast track cabinet appointments.

Donald Trump’s hold over the incoming Republican US Senate faces an early test Wednesday as a longtime ally of the president-elect seeks to win a leadership fight against two bastions of the party establishment.

GOP leadership elections in both chambers will chart a course for how Republicans will seek to work with President-elect Donald Trump on a unified front.

Fox News’ Chad Pergram reports the latest on Republican lawmakers' efforts to choose the best Senate majority leader to work alongside President-elect Trump.

Elon Musk is backing Sen. Rick Scott of Florida to lead the GOP in the Senate. "Rick Scott for Senate Majority Leader!" Musk wrote in an X post on Sunday, a few hours after he posted a poll asking who should take up the position.

Trump and Elon Musk moved to make demands of the next Senate Republican leader, potentially scrambling a race that has been expected to go to one of Mitch McConnell’s longtime allies.

President-elect Trump intervened from Mar-a-Lago in this week's suddenly scrambled race for Senate majority leader, demanding that the candidates embrace using "recess appointments" to bypass Senate confirmation votes.