Fox News anchor wonders what defense sec ‘doesn’t have a bottle of bourbon’ in their office after Hegseth hearing - ‘If you go to Churchill's War Rooms in London, you can buy a bottle of the scotch that he used to drink while he was looking after the war,
Vice President Vance defended new Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, calling him a “disrupter” who will prove “incredibly necessary.” Vance joined CBS News’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday
His remarks suggest he could quickly move to strike down a policy designed to encourage diversity in the military's officer corps. Read more at straitstimes.com.
At his confirmation hearing last week, the former combat veteran and Fox News host said he was “falsely accused” in the 2017 incident.
After that ruling, Blum's group filed lawsuits against the U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Air Force Academy and the Army's U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, seeking to eliminate the carve-out for military schools.
"So that's the two senators that are out. Mitch McConnell is in as is all as are all the other senators in the conference."
Pete Hegseth was confirmed after Vice President JD Vance cast a tie-breaking vote in support of his nomination. See how your senators voted.
A Princeton and Harvard-educated former combat veteran, Hegseth went on to make a career at Fox News, where he hosted a weekend show. Trump tapped him as the defense secretary to lead an organization with nearly 2.1 million service members, about 780,000 civilians and a budget of $850 billion.
Dave McCormick's vote helped Hegseth overcome three GOP defections for be confirmed as secretary of defense. Democrat John Fetterman voted no.
There will be a lot on the plate for new Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth when he steps into his office on the Pentagon’s third floor E Ring.
Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Pentagon, cleared a key procedural hurdle in the Senate on Thursday to advance his nomination.