A testy exchange between a senator who strongly supports Ukraine aid and the defense secretary revealed a deepening split ...

Senator Mitch McConnell — one of three Republicans who opposed Mr. Hegseth’s confirmation in January — opened a Senate budget hearing with a blunt critique of President Trump’s approach to ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine testified Wednesday before the Senate ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced tense questioning during testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee. CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion has more.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth snapped back at female Democratic senators, at one point telling one that her "time was up," as he was grilled at a congressional hearing.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is returning to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for the last in a series of often combative hearings before lawmakers, who have pressed him on everything from a ban on ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will testify on the Pentagon’s budget before the Senate Committee on Armed Services on ...

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) berated Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during a hearing on the Defense Department's 2026 budget ...

Watch live coverage as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Dan Caine testify at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the Pentagon's budget request. The hearing ...

The committee, made up of 14 Republicans and 13 Democrats, is charged with deciding whether to send the president-elect’s Defense Department chief nominee to the full Senate for a vote. Hegseth ...