'Delicate dance': This 'reliable' Trump 'ally' is 'quietly emerging as the Pentagon’s unlikely foil'

'Delicate dance': This 'reliable' Trump 'ally' is 'quietly emerging as the Pentagon’s unlikely foil'

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi) is far from a Never Trumper, voting to confirm President Donald Trump's most controversial appointees — including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, FBI Director Kash Patel and National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard. Democrats were hoping that Wicker would resist putting Hegseth in charge of the Pentagon, but the only GOP senators who voted against him were Kentucky's Mitch…