Billionaire businessman Stephen Feinberg faced sharp questions from Democrats about impending mass firings at the Defense Department and the possibility of significant cuts to the defense budget.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi) is among the Republicans who voted to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth; the only Republicans who joined Senate Democrats in voting against Hegseth's confirmation were Kentucky's Mitch McConnell,
John Phelan, President Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of the Navy, faced a tense confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday.
President Donald Trump was asked by a reporter Friday about Sen. Roger Wicker's (R-MS) comments criticizing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's speech about Ukraine as a "rookie mistake," and replied he had not heard about it.
John Phelan, a businessman with no military experience, said Thursday that he would use his background in the private sector to “step outside the status quo” if he is confirmed as the next secretary of the Navy.
Senate Armed Services Chair Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) slammed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “rookie mistake” for publicly saying a return for Ukraine to pre-2014 borders with Russia was “unrealistic.
Stephen Feinberg, President Donald Trump’s nominee for deputy defense secretary, declined Tuesday to say whether Russia invaded Ukraine and deflected questions from senators about planned cuts to the Pentagon’s civilian workforce.
Speaking at the Pentagon on February 7, 2025, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth invoked predecessor Donald Rumsfeld’s 2001 speech declaring war on bureaucracy and “shifting resources from the ...
Over a dozen U.S. lawmakers attended a reception at the United Kingdom ambassador's residence, hosted by Prime Minister Keir Starmer as part of his visit to Washington D.C. to meet with President Donald Trump.
In his previous stint in the Transportation Department, Steven Bradbury was accused of interfering with a Senate investigation into the crash of two Max jets that killed 346 people combined.
"I don’t know who wrote the speech — it is the kind of thing Tucker Carlson could have written, and Carlson is a fool," Senator Roger Wicker ... United States. Hegseth spoke about Europe's reliance on costly U.S. military deployments for its defense.
The Senate confirmed Daniel Driscoll, a third-generation soldier and businessman who served in the Iraq War, to lead the largest military branch as Army secretary.