Senate Republicans are standing by embattled Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, but they are privately wondering how much ...

While the secretaries of defense historically have received bipartisan support in the Senate, the upper chamber did not issue broad backing for Hegseth’s nomination. The Senate confirmed Hegseth ...

The Senate Armed Services panel has 14 Republicans and 13 Democrats, so Hegseth can only lose a single Republican, if all Democrats oppose him, for the nomination to be voted favorably out of ...

Pete Hegseth needed a warm reception from Senate Republicans. He’s getting it. Chairman Roger Wicker (R., Miss.) let him tackle allegations about sexual assault and drinking head on at the ...

Pete Hegseth, our Secretary of Defense ... When will our members of Congress and Senate have the guts to stand up to President Donald Trump and not be so afraid that they won’t be re-elected ...

Hegseth did not create that chat, and Goldberg reported that he'd been included by mistake. U.S. Sen. Jack Reed at the Jan. 14 Senate confirmation hearing on the nomination of Pete Hegseth to be ...

Cramer, a Senate Armed Services Committee member, argued on Wednesday that while Hegseth has done his part in shaking up the Pentagon, he probably underestimated how difficult doing so would be ...

Hegseth’s Signal use is under investigation by the Defense Department’s acting inspector general at the request of the bipartisan leadership of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Hegseth ...

In recent weeks, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has been the target of many ... significant moments of lacking self-awareness in U.S. Senate history, Democrats linked cheating on a spouse ...

Within days Hegseth dropped out of the race for Senate. (Bills, meanwhile, would win the nomination and lose handily to Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar.) As a cub reporter covering what my editors ...

Since Donald Trump’s second inauguration, the president has sent some truly outlandish nominees to the Senate for confirmation. In a handful of instances — Pete Hegseth, Robert F. Kennedy Jr ...