Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) cited rising global threats as a reason for voting against confirming Pete Hegseth as defense ...

North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis told Pete Hegseth’s former sister-in-law that a sworn statement about his alleged alcohol ...

Mitch McConnell, including at one point musing ... even as it was clear Hegseth was about to be confirmed. (Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, the GOP’s other holdout, had publicly signaled ...

Pete Hegseth’s confirmation vote from the Senate on Friday night, in a tie broken by Vice President J.D. Vance, was helped by ...

Three Republicans voted with every Democrat against Trump’s controversial pick to lead the Pentagon, forcing Vance to step in ...

Pete Hegseth was sworn in to lead the Department of Defense on Saturday, after a narrow vote in the Senate. The vote on ...

Sen. Thom Tillis said he got answers he needed from President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Pentagon, leaving Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Lisa Murkowski of ...

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

As Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell engineered many of the ... There were signs that Thom Tillis was uneasy with the “Fox & Friends” weekend host leading the Pentagon, but Tillis ...

Social media critics raked Republican Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) over the coals after he, along with Vice President J.D. Vance, ...

President Donald Trump's controversial pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., will ...