Vice President JD Vance was on hand to cast a tie-breaking vote, unusual in the Senate for Cabinet nominees, who typically ...

Three Republicans voted with every Democrat against Trump’s controversial pick to lead the Pentagon, forcing Vance to step in ...

Pete Hegseth has vowed to bring his “warrior” ethos to the Pentagon. Democrats had assailed him as unfit for the job, and his ...

A son of a Democratic political dynasty, Kennedy is seeking to become the nation's top health official under President Donald ...

Susan Collins, the Republican U.S. senator from Maine, said there is a great difference ... Trump had pressured Vice President Mike Pence — as president of the Senate — to block the ...

Also notably, while former Vice President Mike Pence attended Trump’s inauguration, his wife, former second lady Karen, did not. Karen Pence snubbed the Trumps earlier this month at Carter’s funeral, ...

His application of those views to the issue of abortion has also raised concerns from some conservatives, including former Vice President Mike Pence, who spoke out against Kennedy's nomination in a ...

Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine joined Democrats to oppose Hegseth’s nomination. It was just the second time in history that a vice president has broken a tie for a Cabinet nominee ...

Susan Collins of Maine, in voting against Hegseth — because the “important ... a tie on a Cabinet nominee — during Trump’s first term, when Vice President Mike Pence cast the vote to confirm Betsy ...