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

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.

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.

Watch President-elect Donald Donald Trump's nominee to head the department of defense, Pete Hegseth is set to face the Senate Tuesday in a confirmation hearing. Watch the Tennessee resident respond here.

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,

Sen. Time Kaine (D-Va.) reaffirmed his pressure on President-elect Trump’s Department of Defense choice Pete Hegseth and said he asked tough questions last week because his Republican colleagues

Sen. Tim Kaine said he pushed Defense Secretary-nominee Pete Hegseth about infidelity and sexual misconduct in a hearing last week because he believed it was the only way to get Republicans to consider voting against him.

Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) said that Hegseth is “definitely on his way” to getting confirmed for his position of secretary of defense.