Pete Hegseth must be approved by the GOP-led Senate Armed Services Committee before he can go before the full Senate for confirmation.

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Defense secretary, appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee for his confirmation hearing on Tuesday, and responded for several hours to tough questions from lawmakers on his fitness for the position.

President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, underwent his Senate confirmation hearings on Tuesday, where senators scrutinized his fitness for the role due to his past as a combat veteran and TV host.

Republicans appear poised to confirm Trump’s controversial nominee to lead the government’s largest and most complex agency

Senate Democrats did nothing to change any minds, hearts, or votes about the defense secretary nominee. Too often, their questioning came across as shrill and hectoring.

The Defense secretary nominee said he’ll ‘look under the hood’ if confirmed.

Hegseth, 44, served in the infantry and was deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. He was awarded two Bronze Stars and a Combat Infantryman Badge.

Pete Hegseth testified before the Senate Committee on Armed Services yesterday in his bid to become Donald Trump's secretary of defense. Hegseth's nomination is among the most controversial of Trump's picks,

From the moment he rode down that golden escalator in Trump Tower nearly a decade ago, Donald J. Trump reshaped the nation’s politics — and he continues to do so today with his hodgepodge of Cabinet picks that includes billionaires and media darlings, eccentrics, and rhetorical bomb-throwers.

The new president’s cabinet — one of the least diverse in recent decades — has the highest concentration of billionaires ever recorded

Trump’s cabinet picks are taking the hotseat at the Senate, and for some, the confirmation hearings have been tense.