The Senate’s 50-50 vote for Pete Hegseth marked the second time in history that a vice president was called upon to break the ...

A senior Pentagon official said that money saved through the cuts could be “realigned” to other defense priorities that ...

WASHINGTON – The Senate narrowly confirmed Pete ... him. Hegseth showed up in person for the vote, which is unusual. McConnell said in a statement that leading the United States Armed Forces ...

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Pete Hegseth ... “Mr. Hegseth provided no substantial observations on how to defend Taiwan or the Philippines against a Chinese attack, or even whether he believes the United States should ...

(photo credit: ROY ROCHLIN/GETTY IMAGES) After being sworn in as the United States Defense ... nominee Pete Hegseth speaks with the media as he departs a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington ...

After a few GOP senators, including McConnell, voted against Hegseth for defense secretary, the Senate narrowly voted to confirm him.

Pete Hegseth, an Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran ... Secretary of Defense.” REUTERS “The United States faces the most dangerous security environment since World War II,”said Wicker ...

Pete Hegseth — a former Fox News ... and a litany of other indiscretions — has been confirmed as the United States Secretary of Defense. Hegseth, who promised senators he would stop drinking ...

Pete Hegseth was sworn in as defense secretary ... "I want to thank the President of the United States, our commander-in-chief, Donald Trump. We could not have a better commander-in-chief than ...

As the dust settles on the fight over Pete Hegseth's nomination, his confirmation is emblematic of a larger truth about the state of Republican politics.

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News host, has been confirmed as the next United States secretary of defense, receiving the keys to the nation's largest federal agency.