Republicans appear poised to confirm Trump’s controversial nominee to lead the government’s largest and most complex agency

Iowa Senator Joni Ernst announced that she would vote for Pete Hegseth to become Defense Secretary, making his path to Senate confirmation much easier.

Pete Hegseth pitched himself as a "change agent" to lead the Defense Department while Democrats excoriated him as unfit during his confirmation hearing.

“I have witnessed many contentious confirmation hearings over the years and watched as the system has become increasingly partisan and vitriolic,” Ruth Marcus writes. But Tuesday’s appearance by defense secretary-designate Pete Hegseth before the Senate Armed Services Committee, she says, “represents a new low in that diminished process.”

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump's choice to head up the Pentagon, faced a Senate confirmation grilling from the Armed Services Committee.

A senator told Hegseth: "I suggest you do a little homework before you prepare for these types of negotiations."

But did this happen at the Pete Hegseth hearings in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee this week? If you thought those kinds of questions would dominate the hearings, you must be living under the illusion that we live in a serious country.

Defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth will publicly face senators on Tuesday for the first time after weeks of privately pushing back on criticism over his qualifications and personal past.

As lawmakers in Washington, D.C. are preparing for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration Monday, Iowa’s U.S. senators met with Trump nominees this week while representatives acted on bills relating to undocumented immigration and women’s sports.

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If I had beene one of the senators questioning Pete Hegseth during his confirmation hearing, this is what I would have asked: