Vice President J.D. Vance was needed to break a tie Friday night in order for the Senate to confirm Pete Hegseth as President Donald Trump’s defense secretary.
“Congratulations to Pete Hegseth,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “He will make a great Secretary of Defense!”
It was the second time in U.S. history that a vice president was needed to break a tie to confirm a Cabinet nomination. The first was in 2017 in Trump’s first administration, when Mike Pence cast the tiebreaking vote to confirm Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
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