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

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

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 ...

The Senate on Friday night confirmed President Donald Trump’s nomination of Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News personality, to ...

Thom Tillis (R., N.C.) that her sworn statement would carry weight in last week’s vote and could persuade Republican senators to oppose the nominee, according to people familiar with the events.

Mitch McConnell’s Unburdened Era has begun ... There were also rumblings about the unsure nature of Sen. Thom Tillis’ stance; the North Carolina Republican said as the vote was proceeding ...

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 ...

The US Senate on Friday approved Pete Hegseth as President Donald Trump’s defense secretary by a razor-thin margin, in which, ...

Pete Hegseth was sworn in to lead the Department of Defense on Saturday, after a narrow vote in the Senate. The vote on Friday night was initially 50-50, with Vice President JD Vance then casting the ...

Former Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) criticized President Trump for pardoning roughly 1,500 people who were arrested during the Jan, 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, including some ...

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 ...