With his confirmation at stake, Pete Hegseth is working the phones ahead of a Senate vote to shore up support to become the ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., endorsed a two-bill strategy in December, and Republicans in the chamber have already begun setting up the process for a border-only reconciliation bill.

Anti-establishment conservatives who opposed Thune for leader are satisfied but cautiously optimistic, as Trump turns up the ...

Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky voted against President Donald Trump's nominee to be secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth.

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

With votes expected late evening, the Republican-led Senate is determined to install Hegseth, a former Fox News host and ...

Donald and Melania Trump are stopping in North Carolina, California and Nevada during their first second-term trip. Follow ...

Even as handicappers adjudged Pete Hegseth ’s confirmation as secretary of Defense to be all but certain, not one but two ...