With 51 to 50 votes, the US Senate voted to confirm Pete Hegseth’s nomination as Minister of Defense by President Donald Trump.
The Senate confirms Hegseth as Minister of Defense
Vance releases his vote and breaks the draw with 51:50
– Chad Pergram (@Chadpergram) January 25, 2025
As we wrote on Friday, there were concerns about the signs that appeared on Thursday evening that a senator could be unsure about the management of the Ministry of Defense when coordinating Trump’s decision:
We always knew that it would be tight, but the senator of North Carolina, Thom Tillis (right), has further questioned the confirmation of Pete Hegseth as President Donald Trump’s defense minister, with comments on Thursday evening, the signaled, That he didn’t say a clear yes.
The vote is scheduled for Friday evening at 8:57 p.m. Eastern Time, after the 30 hours after the cloture.
However, Moore added: “Tillis did not state how he wanted to vote even though he had previously sworn to vote for a confirmation if Hegseth made it into the Senate.”
Read more: Waffelt Tillis? NC Senator sends mixed signals for the Hegseth vote
The leading congress reporter from FOX News, Chad Pergram confirmed On his X account that the vote was still on track at this time, shortly before 9:00 p.m.-a positive sign for the Republicans in the upper house. Shortly after 8:15 p.m. EST, some surprise guests arrived in the Capitol – the candidate Pete Hegseth and his family:
Hegseth arrived in the Capitol for the confirmation vote. Hegseth is here with his wife and children. Ignorating the question of whether he is talking to senators tonight. At some point there was a thumbs up pic.twitter.com/p2R362RWWR
– Chad Pergram (@Chadpergram) January 25, 2025
He added The fact that the family was brought into the Thamond Room electricity and that “it rarely happens that a candidate comes into the Capitol for his own confirmation.” It looks as if Hegseth decides to pull through – no matter how it turns out.
On the way to the Senate vote on Hegseth’s nomination, there was bumps when I wrote about a “breathtaking”, antiqueathic attack on him in November 2024, the recent claim in the past few days was leaked from a confidential legal department about the testimony of a former sister -in -law About Hegseth’s ex-wife-who denied that she was true.
The minority leader in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, arrived to Hegseth a few minutes:
Schumer arrives in the Capitol. I will not say whether he has the votes to thwart Hegseth’s nomination. “Go there and look,” says Schumer
Schumer will also not comment on whether he is asking you to burn every 30 hours after having broken through the filibuster during NoEM nomination
– Chad Pergram (@Chadpergram) January 25, 2025
The US Senate started with the vote For nomination around 8:58 p.m. EST. Then they existed two no by republican legislators, the senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Susan Collins (R-Me). At 9:15 p.m. it was reported that Tillis at Hegseth’s confirmation would be right with yes:
Tillis votes for Hegseth
– Chad Pergram (@Chadpergram) January 25, 2025
Then Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) right with noWhat corresponds to a vote from 49 to 50, but as Pergram noted: “This leads to a likely prickly decision vote.” [Vice President JD] Vance confirms Hegseth. It will only be the second vice president who solves a draw to confirm a cabinet candidate. Pence about Devos in 2017. ”
Tillis officially occupied His yes voice at 9:26 p.m., so it is a tie. Shortly after the vote on the nomination had started, his office was taken over released An explanation in which he clarified his voice and praised Hegseth about Tillis’ X-account, which was:
From the beginning, my position was clear to me: If President Trump’s candidates were rated positively in the corresponding committees, I would support your confirmation in the Senate, provided that there are no significant information about your qualifications. After Pete Hegseth’s nomination had spoken by my colleagues in the Senate forces committee, I carried out my own DUE diligence test and asked, among other things, tough questions for Pete. I appreciated his openness and openness to answer these questions.
As the veteran of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Pete has a unique perspective and is undoubtedly passionate about modernizing our military and supporting the courageous patriots like him that serve our nation. I will support his confirmation and look forward to working with him to rebuild our military and promote President Trump’s Agenda “Peace through strength”.
Vance shared an example of his arid joke in a contribution on his X account: Saying:
I thought I was ready with the vote in the Senate
He ended with a laughing emoji. Then the Vice President and President of the Senate arrived At 9:44 p.m. EST on the Capitol Hill at 9:51 p.m.
This is a groundbreaking story. Redstate will provide updates as soon as further details are available.
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