Pete Hegseth, confirmed by the Senate as Defense secretary Friday night in a 51-50 vote, with Vice President JD Vance breaking the tie, takes over leadership of the Pentagon at a time of great ...

During an interview on Fox News’s Jesse Watters Primetime Wednesday night, Trump’s unqualified Secretary of Defense Pete ...

Kyle Peterson: The Senate votes narrowly with a vice presidential tiebreaker to approve Pete Hegseth as the US ... was also under Donald Trump when Mike Pence in 2017 cast a tie breaking vote ...

Kyle Peterson: The Senate votes narrowly with a vice presidential tiebreaker to approve Pete Hegseth as the US ... was also under Donald Trump when Mike Pence in 2017 cast a tie breaking vote ...

The Senate voted 51-50 on Friday night to confirm Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host who has criticized ... The previous time this happened was in 2017, when former Vice President Mike Pence cast the ...

On Tuesday, Pete Hegseth sailed through his first Senate ... gaps and exactly why a person is unqualified for a role. Mike Pence is already going after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. using his ...

Pete Hegseth was sworn in on Saturday as the ... The only previous incident was in 2017, when Mike Pence, then-vice president under Donald Trump in his first term, cast the deciding vote for ...

As U.S. President Donald Trump took office in January 2025, his choice for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, came under close scrutiny. News media reports shone a spotlight on the former "Fox ...

The Senate confirmed Pete Hegseth late Friday, swatting back questions about his qualifications to lead the Pentagon.

Vice President Vance cast a tie-breaking vote as Hegseth overcame allegations of sexual assault, public drunkenness and questions of financial mismanagement to win Senate approval.

Vice President Vance on Friday broke a Senate tie to confirm Pete Hegseth as President Trump’s secretary of Defense, capping a bruising two-month fight over the nominee, who faced a litany of ...

Pete Hegseth was sworn into his new position as secretary of defense Saturday morning after being confirmed in a contentious Senate vote the night before. Hegseth, a former Fox News host ...