Pete Hegseth Narrowly Confirmed as Trump's Defense Secretary

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : "We have a great secretary of defense and we're very happy," Trump said as he boarded Air Force One after surveying fire devastation in California.
46% : He went on to a career at Fox News as the host of a weekend show, and was unknown to many on Capitol Hill until Trump tapped him for the top Defense job.
35% : "He's a good man," Trump said of Hegseth while departing the White House to visit disaster-hit North Carolina and Los Angeles.
33% : Trump raised the idea of so-called "recess appointments" during a private White House meeting with Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson, a step many senators are trying to avoid.
24% : Trump said he didn't care about the dissent from Sen. Mitch McConnell, the influential former Republican leader -- who joined two other Republicans, Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, in voting against Hegseth -- because the "important thing is winning.
6% : Next week senators will be facing Trump's other outside Cabinet choices including particularly Kash Patel, a Trump ally who has published an enemies list, as the FBI director; Tulsi Gabbard as director of the office of national intelligence; and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the anti-vaccine advocate, at Health and Human Services.

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