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

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

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

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

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said vaccines are not safe. His support for abortion access has made conservatives uncomfortable.

Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Susan Collins (Maine) have raised concerns about ... Trump's former vice president Mike Pence and his advocacy group, Advancing American Freedom, urged Republicans ...

Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Sen Susan Collins of Maine, in voting against Hegseth - because the ... on a Cabinet nominee - during Trump's first term, when Vice President Mike Pence cast the vote to ...

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 ...

Alaska's Lisa Murkoswski and Susan Collins of Maine — voted no. The only previous time a vice president broke a tie on a Cabinet confirmation vote was during the first Trump term when Vice President ...

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 ...