This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Hibapress
The US Senate narrowly confirmed on Friday evening the nomination of Pete Hegseth as Donald Trump’s Secretary of Defense. Fifty senators voted in favor of Hegseth’s confirmation, while 50 others, including three Republicans, voted against, requiring the vote of Vice President JD Vance, in his capacity as President of the Senate, to decide the tiebreaker. countdown.
This is the first time that a Secretary of Defense has been confirmed by such a slim majority since the position was created in 1947.
A former member of the US Army Special Forces, Pete Hegseth, a Princeton graduate, served in Iraq in 2005 and Afghanistan in 2014, before joining Fox News as a commentator and then host.
Hegseth, 44, is one of the youngest defense secretaries to lead and supervise the 1.3 million troops in the US military, which has a budget of nearly $850 billion.
