The Senate voted to confirm Trump’s choice for secretary of State, and key committees advanced his nominations for defense secretary and CIA director.
The former Fox News host will be forced to comment publicly on several controversies in detail for the first time as he fights to become secretary of defense.
A review of Pete Hegseth's written answers to a Senate Armed Services Committee questionnaire that was not brought up at his hearing.
In his January 14 confirmation hearing, Pete Hegseth, United States President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defence secretary, faced scrutiny over his level of experience and personal conduct. In the first of several high-profile confirmation hearings for Trump’s second-term nominees,
Pete Hegseth could hardly be more suited to be Donald Trump’s secretary of Defense — even though he’d surely be deemed unqualified by any conventional president.
It is the first serious test of Donald Trump’s newly invigorated strongman model of governance and of whether he can continue to bend the Republican Party to his will even as Hegseth breaks procedural precedents,
Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick to run the Pentagon, saw little resistance from Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Senate, Pete Hegseth
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Slotkin, Peters hit Pete Hegseth with questions at Senate hearing for Pentagon nominee
Fact-check: Senate confirmation hearing for defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth
During the confirmation hearing, Hegseth said if confirmed as defense secretary, he would follow the law. When King asked, "Are you OK with waterboarding?" Hegseth said, "Senator, the law of the land is that waterboarding is not legal."
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Pete Hegseth nomination advances in Senate despite Sen. Mark Kelly's objections
Starting Jan. 14, the Republican-led U.S. Senate plans to hold hearings for President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks, with the aim of confirming their appointments directly after Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration.
The Senate battle to confirm President-elect Trump’s Cabinet picks will begin in earnest on Tuesday, as his controversial pick to lead the Pentagon, former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, meets the
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice ... nominated to be head of the CIA, will take their turn in the spotlight for hearings on Wednesday, Jan. 15. A month ago, the Army National ...
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for defense secretary, is expected to face tough questions today when he appears in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Taking place less than a week before Trump's inauguration, the confirmation hearing is the first for one of Trump's Cabinet picks.
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