The Senate voted largely along party lines Thursday to advance Pete Hegseth, President Trump’s nominee to serve as secretary ...

Sen. Lisa Murkowski announced that she will vote against confirming Pete Hegseth to lead Pentagon, becoming the first ...

Former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), who stepped down from the leadership at the end of last year, cast a ...

A defining duo of the first Donald Trump administration is back.

The senator from Maine finds it “troubling” that the FBI failed to share certain information about Pete Hegseth with senators ...

The Senate just barely confirmed Pete Hegseth as Defense Secretary last week. Mitch McConnell’s vote against him in ...

Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of ... Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) said he “was not surprised” by their votes and “I do understand” their ...

The Senate confirmed Pete Hegseth as defense secretary by the narrowest of margins, elevating an Army National Guard veteran ...

Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Collins broke ranks with President ... to be the next secretary of defense,” the chairman, Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., said in a statement on the eve of voting.

Pete Hegseth has vowed to bring his “warrior” ethos to the Pentagon. Democrats had assailed him as unfit for the job, and his ...