"Mr President, why did you invite Adam Schiff on your trip if you called him scum?" an off-camera reporter then asked.

Vice President JD Vance was forced to step in after Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell broke ranks and voted against Hegseth.

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Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump’s controversial pick for secretary of Defense, needed the vice president to break a Senate tie to confirm him to run America's largest government agency.