
Republican Senator Joni Ernst, a prominent member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, announced her decision to vote for Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Secretary of Defense, on Tuesday.
"Our next commander in chief selected Pete Hegseth to serve in this role, and after our conversations, hearing from Iowans, and doing my job as a United States Senator, I will support President Trump's pick for Secretary of Defense," Ernst said in a statement, NBC reported.