A nominee to serve in President-elect Donald Trump s cabinet said a Hail Mary with members of his family ahead of his confirmation hearing

Democrats repeatedly called Pete Hegseth unfit to be secretary of defense, but Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee expressed nothing but support for his candidacy at a confirmation hearing.

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,

There is nothing in Duffy’s background that suggests he would be effective at leading the Department of Transportation.

In a heated Senate confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth, Sen. Tammy Duckworth grilled the proposed defense secretary over the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, asking him if he could name one member and how many countries were in the bloc.

Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host and veteran of the ... Former Representative Sean Duffy of Wisconsin, a former television host on Fox Business, served in Congress from 2011 to 2019 before retiring ...

The confirmation process for President-elect Donald Trump's incoming Cabinet is underway. After a Tuesday hearing with Trump's defense secretary nominee, Pete Hegseth, several other key members of the incoming administration went before the committees overseeing the agencies that Trump wants them to run.

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for defense secretary is Pete Hegseth calling himself a change agent as a potentially explosive Senate confirmation hearing opens