Notably, Gabbard questioned the US intelligence community’s assessments that Assad was behind a deadly chlorine gas attack the same year she met with the Syrian strongman, to which Trump said at the time: “There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons.”

GOP insiders view Trump’s nominee for intelligence director as far more vulnerable than his choice for Pentagon chief.

‘I know what I don’t know,’ SecDef pick says at confirmation hearing. Pete Hegseth conceded that he lacks the experience of previous defense secretaries but said what he has is enough.

Democrats’ hopes of defeating any of President-elect Trump’s Cabinet nominees appear to be fizzling as Senate committees prepare for the first week of hearings. Senate Democrats have

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.

Several of Donald Trump’s highest-profile Cabinet nominees are viewed more negatively than positively by Americans, a new poll found. Pete Hegseth is among the least popular.

Confirmation hearings for President-elect Trump’s Cabinet nominees will keep senators busy this week, with over a dozen on the schedule so far. Among the first up is Pete Hegseth, the former

Sixteen women. Twelve TV and news media personalities. Ten immigrants. A former NFL football player. These are among the first 100 people who President-elect Donald Trump has named to various positions for his upcoming administration.

Amid Tuesday's Senate confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of defense, MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin raised a question over why Hegseth's ex-wife was not interviewed for his background check.

Some of Trump's more controversial picks for Cabinet positions are set to face the Senate for confirmation hearings this week.

It is the first serious test of Donald Trump’s newly invigorated strongman model of governance and of whether he can continue to bend the Republican Party to his will even as Hegseth breaks procedural precedents,