Senate is preparing to confirm Pete Hegseth as defense secretary in late evening vote

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Trump raised the idea of so-called "recess appointments" during a private White House meeting with Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson.
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.
10% : And Trump raised fresh questions about Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., saying, "And of course Mitch is always a no vote, I guess.
8% : But Trump leveled criticism of Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine who so far have been the only Republicans to announce they would vote against Hegseth.
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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