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.

More Trump nominees with potentially rocky paths to confirmation face hearings in the Senate this week, including Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Kash Patel.

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

Vice President Vance on Friday broke a Senate tie to confirm Pete Hegseth as President Trump’s secretary of Defense, capping a bruising two-month fight over the nominee, who faced a litany

The Senate on Friday night confirmed President Donald Trump’s nomination of Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News personality, to become the country’s next defense secretary.

Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee joins Nicole Wallace on Deadline White House to preview Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s choice to be Defense Secretary’s confirmation hearing set to take place with multiple outstanding questions remaining regarding allegations of financial mismanagement,

The Senate confirmed Pete Hegseth as the nation’s Defense secretary in a late-night vote that required a tiebreaking vote by Vice President JD Vance.

Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump's choice to be defense secretary, gives a thumbs-up at the completion of his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee at the Capitol on Jan.

With his confirmation at stake, Pete Hegseth is working the phones ahead of a Senate vote to shore up support to become the nation’s defense secretary.

Presenter whose colleagues are in line to join the new cabinet says the US is in the midst of ‘political realignment’

The new Donald Trump administration has started its term of office with a massive burst of activity, but much of it has been confused or confusing. And some of it has been deeply concerning for pretty much everybody else.