Democrats on the Armed Services committee will meet with Chuck Schumer ahead of controversial Trump pick Pete Hegseth's confirmation meeting.

“These are serious allegations for such an important job,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) has questioned Hegseth’s comments saying women shouldn’t serve in combat roles. He walked those comments ...

Hegseth is set to begin confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill. In his opening statement obtained by NBC News, he leans into his outside perspective. “It’s time to give someone with dust on his boots the helm,” he is expected to say. NBC’s Ryan Nobles reports for "TODAY."

When President Donald Trump accepted the Republican nomination for the White House for the third time, he told the crowd in Milwaukee, “I’m not supposed to be here.” It was a line he repeated often in the weeks following the attempt on his life in Butler,

Many of Trump’s nominees to serve in Cabinet and advisory roles are slated to appear this week for hearings before Senate committees, a key test for many of them.

Democrats seemed determined to prove that they're the party for screechy unhinged cat ladies and they did so at the Pete Hegseth hearing.

Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore. said Tuesday they have joined 39 colleagues in introducing the District of Columbia statehood bill for the 119th Congress in the Senate. “Year after year, nearly 700,

Many of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees to serve in top Cabinet and senior advisory roles are slated to appear on Capitol Hill this week for hearings before Senate committees, a key

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s choice for Defense secretary, on Tuesday emerged largely unscathed from an at times blistering confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services

Sen. Tammy Duckworth put Pete Hegseth’s foreign policy chops to the test during his confirmation hearing on Tuesday as President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Pentagon. The Illinois Democrat asked Hegseth to name one country in ASEAN,

Democrats grilled Trump’s defense secretary pick over ugly allegations against him. But barring a last-minute surprise, he appears on track to be confirmed.

The US Senate this week could vote on the Laken Riley Act and approve it in time for the incoming president to sign it into law on day one.