After a bruising confirmation hearing, all former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) can do now is wait. The White House expects his confirmation to be the next defense secretary will proceed. Going into the ...

Pete Hegseth, expected to be the next Secretary of Defense, testified last week at his confirmation hearings about policy priorities with significant potential to affect private industry. National ...

Two GOP senators said they believe Pete Hegseth will have the votes to be confirmed as the next U.S. defense secretary following a contentious hearing on Tuesday. Sens. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., and ...

Next SecDef confirmed? Hegseth faces fire in confirmation hearing President Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, soldiers through a contentious hearing ahead of his potential ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (center) speaks with Senate Armed Services Committee member Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala. (left), before a hearing in Washington, D.C. on April 7, 2022. (J. Scott ...

SecDef confirmation hearing set for Jan. 14. Pete Hegseth, who is Donald Trump’s announced nominee to succeed Lloyd Austin as U.S. defense secretary, will go before the newly GOP-controlled Senate ...

Pete not only served honorably and with distinction as a warrior on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, but during his confirmation hearing he showed that he can also successfully defeat the ...

Defense Secretary nominee Lloyd Austin responds to a question during his Senate Armed Forces Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 19, 2021. DoD Photo President-elect Joe Biden’s ...