McConnell's vote of conscience against Pete Hegseth, following decades of obstruction, was rendered meaningless after J.D. Vance broke the tie vote.

That being said: J.D. Vance stepped up, Pete Hegseth will be our next defense secretary, and all is right with the world for one night. And as for the closeness of the vote, one hopes what we saw ...

President Donald Trump directly contradicted vice president JD Vance and indirectly called him a liar.The president dismissed a question Tuesday from ABC News correspondent Terry Moran, who asked ...

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 ...

Vance added: "The main thing that we want Pete Hegseth to do is to fix the problems at the Department of Defense and, unfortunately, there are many. We've gotten into way too many wars that we don ...

Topline. Pete Hegseth was sworn in as Defense Secretary on Saturday, following a tie-breaking vote by Vice President JD Vance to end a stalemate in Hegseth’s confirmation hearing, during which ...

Pete Hegseth, an Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran and former Fox News host who promised to “return the Pentagon to the warfighters,” was confirmed as President Trump’s defense secretary in a ...

Hegseth acknowledged this week, in written responses to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts), that he paid a $50,000 settlement to the woman who accused him of rape.