"I would point out I've never disparaged women serving in the military," he told Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. "I respect every single female service member that has put on the

Republican Louisiana U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy said Friday he will vote to confirm Pete Hegseth as President-elect Donald Trump's secretary of defense. Hegseth, a combat veteran and former Fox News host, is among Trump's more controversial cabinet nominees ...

Even as handicappers adjudged Pete Hegseth ’s confirmation as secretary of Defense to be all but certain, not one but two Republican senators indicated a hard pass on the poorly qualified bad boy from Fox News.

U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy announced Friday that he would vote to confirm Pete Hegseth to lead the U.S. Department of Defense.

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

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.

Pete Hegseth has picked up another key vote for confirmation as President-elect Trump's secretary of defense. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., on Friday said he will vote to confirm Hegseth, an Army ...

Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, struggled to answer a series of questions from Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono.