Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth’s Senate confirmation hearing is scheduled for the second week of January, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee told CNN.
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), the ranking member and soon-to-be chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, spoke glowingly of President-elect Donald Trump’s Defense Secretary nominee, Pete Hegseth, after their meeting Wednesday.
Senate Democrats have added a provision to a yearly defense bill that would require women to register for the Selective Service, prompting opposition from Republicans.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Senate Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) stated that while he doesn’t think Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will resign and we shouldn’t expect him to, the internal
President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin — the two officials with National Command Authority, or the authority to give military orders — were both out of office on New Year’s Day, raising questions as to who exactly would be in charge in the case of a military emergency.
Republican officials are expressing outrage over the Biden administration’s Department of Defense “lack of transparency” after the revelation it hid the fact Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized for days, raising serious queries about the maintenance of security during that period.
The top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. Roger Wicker, slammed the Pentagon for its “shocking defiance of the law” after it failed to disclose Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization to the president, the National Security Council, and Congress for several days, and called for a briefing from the administration “immediately.”
Republican officials slammed the Biden administration following Thursday’s quiet revelation of its intention to expand the border wall with Mexico — continuing the construction of the barrier that was a hallmark policy of former President Donald Trump and was subject to relentless criticism from President Biden and the Democrats.
Roger Wicker will introduce a bill Tuesday aimed at preserving “merit and performance” as important metrics for opportunity in the military.
GOP Sen. Roger Wicker was furious when he learned from a news report that the Chinese spy balloon collected intelligence on U. S. military sites and sent it to China.
The Biden administration released its nearly $7 trillion 2024 budget request to Congress on Thursday, which included $886 billion for defense — a 3.2 percent boost from the prior year’s defense budget.
Sen. Roger Wicker is planning to denounce the Biden Pentagon’s woke and pro-choice agenda, according to excerpts of a speech obtained by Breitbart News.
GOP leaders on the House and Senate Armed Services Committee called it a “wake-up call” that China has surpassed the U.S. in ICBM launchers.
China now has more land-based and mobile intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launchers than the United States does, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
Sen. Cynthia Lummis and other Senate Republicans pushed back on the Biden administration’s potential move to ban gas stoves in a letter exclusively obtained by Breitbart News.
Eighteen Republican United States senators voted with Democrats to pass the 4,155-page, $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill and send it to the House of Representatives, where Speaker Nancy Pelosi hopes to pass it before Christmas.
GOP officials in the House and Senate ripped into the Biden administration after it attempted to redefine what constitutes a recession while concerns mount about a significant decline in economic activity this year.
A senior staffer for Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) sent a bizarre email across the Senate GOP conference earlier this week in which he wrote a fictional account fantasizing about GOP senators fighting with each other and one threatening to stab others with shards of a broken glass bottle.
The Senate Commerce Committee advanced Gigi Sohn’s FCC and Alvaro Bedoya’s FTC nominations, putting Democrats one step closer to being able to advance their leftist agenda, including censorship, at the agencies.
Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Alex Witt Reports” that Republicans claiming President Joe Biden’s promise to choose a black woman for the Supreme Court is an example of affirmative action is both disrespectful and dishonorable.
Republican and Democrat senators are jointly negotiating an omicron stimulus package worth $68 billion dollars to boost President Joe Biden’s stumbling economy, the Washington Post reported Wednesday.
Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) is cautioning against the overheated rhetoric with regards to a possible armed conflict with Russia over Ukraine.
11 Republican senators sent a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Thursday, demanding the internet giant reverse its ban on the pro-life organization Live Action’s ads promoting an Abortion Pill Reversal (APR) hotline.
A group of ten Senate Republicans sent a letter to Senate Armed Service Committee Chairman Jack Reed (D-RI) demanding a hearing on the “chaotic” military withdrawal from Afghanistan, including sworn testimony from senior military leaders.
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) on Tuesday sent a letter to President Biden, discouraging him from allowing the Taliban to “set the timetable” for U.S. evacuations from Afghanistan as the jihadist organization said it will not accept an extension to the August 31 deadline.
Three Senators, who all received the Chinese coronavirus vaccine, announced Thursday they tested positive for the virus after experiencing “mild symptoms.”
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) announced his support for the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill Sunday after voting against the bill.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) unveiled legislation Wednesday that would prevent the federal government from imposing a mask mandate on public transportation.
U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, introduced a bill aimed at curbing tech censorship called the PRO-SPEECH Act last week.
Republicans Nearly Double Counter Offer to $1 Trillion in Negotiations over Joe Biden’s Infrastructure Package
Senate Republicans trashed President Joe Biden’s $1.7 infrastructure counter proposal late Friday, saying they are “further apart after two meetings with White House staff.”
Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA), Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), and Jon Tester (D-MT) are not comfortable raising the corporate tax rate to President Joe Biden’s proposed 28 percent
A group of 18 Republican senators sent a letter requesting to halt Colin Kahl’s nomination for a top Pentagon post so the FBI can investigate whether Kahl improperly disclosed classified information after leaving a prior post in government.
Tuesday on “CNN Newsroom,” Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) addressed former President Donald Trump over the weekend reportedly calling Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) a “dumb son of a b—-.” The comments came as Trump addressed a crowd of Republican donors at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.
President Joe Biden defended Monday his bi-partisan meeting at the White House on infrastructure, despite Republicans dismissing the event as more empty “window dressing.”
Four Republican members of Congress plan to meet President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris Monday to discuss his $2.5 trillion proposed spending plan.
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that Republicans were willing to negotiate with President Joe Biden on his infrastructure package.
A massive backlash against Coca-Cola was sparked after the Georgia-based CEO, James Quincey, said the recently-passed Georgia voting laws.
On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Cavuto Live,” Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) stated that it is “less and less likely” that there will be a bipartisan deal on coronavirus relief, and that Democrats want to “chip away at
Friday on FNC’s “Your World,” Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) argued that similar to what one might see in a third-world country when a strongman “takes over in a coup d’etat,” the American left was engaged in taking over the way American citizens communicate, which could be a way to maintain power.