JD Vance arrives in Senate to break nail-biter Pete Hegseth tie on Defense Secretary vote

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Earlier this week, the White House sent more than 150 civil service experts in the National Security Council home as the administration vet whether they are sufficiently loyal to Trump.
44% : The Senate confirmation of Pete Hegseth as Donald Trump's next Secretary of Defense was hung up late Friday evening in a last-minute nail-biter vote following several misconduct allegations that threatened to tank his nomination.
36% : But Trump faces numerous challenges with future confirmations, including that of Kash Patel, his choice to lead the FBI, and Tulsi Gabbard, his nominee for Director of National Intelligence.
32% : During his first term, Trump nominated James Mattis, a retired four-star Marine general, to lead the Pentagon, followed by Mark Esper, a former Raytheon executive who served in the U.S. Army for almost three decades.
28% : Trump also clashed with army General Mark Milley, whom he nominated to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who later apologized after he appeared in his military outfit for a photo-op at Lafayette Square during the protests of 2020.
27% : Trump also announced his firing of Coast Guard Adm Linda Fagan, the commandant of the US Coast Guard, via a post on Truth Social.
18% : Esper later divulged in his memoir that Trump asked Esper if the U.S. military could shoot Black Lives
15% : Former president Joe Biden issued a pre-emptive pardon to Milley to prevent retribution from Trump shortly before he left office.

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