{"id":713,"date":"2025-04-11T06:24:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T06:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/?p=713"},"modified":"2025-04-14T11:26:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T11:26:38","slug":"senate-confirms-dan-caine-to-lead-joint-chiefs-in-late-night-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/senate-confirms-dan-caine-to-lead-joint-chiefs-in-late-night-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate confirms Dan Caine to lead Joint Chiefs in late-night vote"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Senate early Friday morning voted to confirm President Trump\u2019s choice to be chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, retired Lt. Gen. Dan Caine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 60-25\u00a0vote came after Democrats, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), blocked a quick passage of Caine\u2019s nomination to protest Trump\u2019s Feb. 21 firing of the previous top military commander, Gen. C.Q. Brown Jr. The senators, who are poised to leave for a two-week recess, argued Brown\u2019s removal was unjustified.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But despite the unexplained firing of Brown, Caine had bipartisan support following a relatively quiet confirmation hearing that had no major objections to him becoming the U.S. military\u2019s top uniformed official. The Senate Armed Services Committee, which oversaw his hearing, voted 23-4 to pass his nomination on to the full Senate.<\/p>\n

The panel\u2019s chair, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), urged his colleagues Wednesday to pass Caine \u201cwithout any delays,\u201d pointing to China\u2019s continued military buildup and adversaries that continue to band together against U.S. interests.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump should have the expertise of the highest-ranking military officer in place without any delays,\u201d he said in a statement, arguing Caine \u201csailed through\u201d the Senate Armed Services Committee\u2019s vote, \u201can overwhelming, nearly unanimous, bipartisan endorsement.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Senate\u2019s passage of Caine\u2019s nomination comes after Trump blindsided the Pentagon and Congress in February with the firing of seven top officials<\/a>,\u00a0including Brown and Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the first female chief of naval operations.<\/p>\n

Democrats argued the firings were a move by the Trump administration to politicize the historically apolitical U.S. military, seeking to fill top Defense Department leadership positions with people who wouldn\u2019t dissent from his opinion. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, prior to his current position, had advocated Brown be fired along with all other \u201cwoke\u201d generals involved with diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts in the department.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt sends a chilling message about who is and who is not welcome in our military,\u201d Warren said of the firings at a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Caine, however, during his confirmation hearing vowed to serve apolitically, saying he would not become a \u201cyes man\u201d for Trump if voted through. He also said he would follow U.S. laws and the Constitution, and that he was willing to be fired and would push back if the president asked him to carry out illegal orders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Senate early Friday morning voted to confirm President Trump\u2019s choice to be chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, retired Lt. Gen. Dan Caine.\u00a0 The 60-25\u00a0vote came after Democrats, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), blocked a quick passage of Caine\u2019s nomination to protest Trump\u2019s Feb. 21 firing of the previous top military commander, Gen. C.Q. Brown Jr. The senators, who are poised to leave for a two-week recess,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}