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Wednesday, 12 February 2025

Fox News Host Is Now U.S. Defense Secretary

Less than 12-hours after Vice President JD Vance cast the tie-breaking vote, Pete Hegseth was sworn in Saturday as the nation’s 29th Secretary of Defense, quickly joining President Trump’s Cabinet after a dramatic late-night vote in the Senate installed him as the Pentagon’s leader.

Hegseth took the oath from Vice President JD Vance in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building with Hegseth’s wife, Jennifer Rauchet, at his side and Republican senators looking on.

In brief remarks, Hegseth outlined what he said were his guiding principles:  Restore the warrior ethos in everything that we do, rebuild our military and reestablish deterrence.”

“I want to fight wars,” he added. “We want to deter them… and we want to end them responsibly. But if we need to fight them, we’re going to bring overwhelming and decisive force to close with and destroy the enemy and bring our boys home.”

He enters office with far less experience than modern defense secretaries before him, acknowledging during his confirmation hearing that he’ll need to build an experienced team as he settles into the job. “I want smarter and more capable people around me than me, and you will get that at the department,” he said in his testimony.

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