Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Democrats on the Armed Services Committee will huddle Monday amid a standoff over Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, Axios has learned. Why it matters: Only one top Senate Democrat has read Hegseth's FBI background check since it was given to Congress last week.

Senate Democrats plan to question nominees on their loyalty to implementing President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda during confirmation hearings in the coming weeks, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.

During his remarks from the Senate floor this week, Senator Chuck Schumer went scorched earth on Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is meeting with Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) Democrats on Monday evening to discuss the confirmation hearing for controversial Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth — just hours before its set ...

I watched Sen. Chuck Schumer on television planting the seed in people’s minds that Pete Hegseth, who is nominated for secretary of defense, is an unsavory character. Hegseth is a

Jeff Naft is now communications director for the Senate Banking Committee. He most recently was communications director for the House Intelligence Committee and is an alum of House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) and Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.).

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer prepped Democrats for their vicious smearing of Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth.

Hegseth is set to begin confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill. In his opening statement obtained by NBC News, he leans into his outside perspective. “It’s time to give someone with dust on his boots the helm,” he is expected to say. NBC’s Ryan Nobles reports for "TODAY."

I’m not a perfect person,” the Trump Pentagon pick said when confronted over his alleged drinking, extreme views on women in combat, and sexual assault claims. The ex-Fox News host had talking points ready—and Republicans seemed willing to buy them.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is urging Democrats not to go easy on President-elect Trump's nominees this week and get them on record on key issues.

Trump’s incoming national security adviser, praised Hegseth's “warrior ethos ... background documents,” said Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, of New York. Schumer criticized Wicker, the ...

Donald Trump began his presidency with a dizzying display of force, signing a blizzard of executive orders that signaled his desire to remake American institutions while also pardoning nearly all of his supporters who rioted at the U.