A testy exchange between a senator who strongly supports Ukraine aid and the defense secretary revealed a deepening split ...

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has blasted the tax cuts and spending plans backed by President Donald Trump that passed the House ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will face a barrage of questions Tuesday as he appears on Capitol Hill for his first public ...

Less than a week later, their potent political alliance met a dramatic end Thursday when the men attacked each other with blistering epithets. Trump threatened to go after Musk’s business interests.

Republican senators came out firing during Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s hearing Wednesday before the Senate ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday closed out his third and final day of hearings on Capitol Hill with several ...

Pete Hegseth on Tuesday battled through a high-stakes Senate hearing in which Democrats sought to paint the Pentagon nominee as inexperienced, unprofessional and toxic due to allegations of sexual ...

The committee, made up of 14 Republicans and 13 Democrats, is charged with deciding whether to send the president-elect’s Defense Department chief nominee to the full Senate for a vote. Hegseth ...

WASHINGTON — Pete Hegseth ... Senate. Texas Republican Sen. John Tower, President-elect George H.W. Bush's choice for defense secretary, was voted down in 1989 after contentious confirmation ...

Democrats say Hegseth's lack of experience, his past comments about women and Black troops and allegations of excessive drinking and sexual misconduct, make him unfit to serve. Senate Armed ...