{"id":2831,"date":"2025-04-16T21:09:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T21:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=2831"},"modified":"2025-04-16T21:09:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T21:09:32","slug":"senate-confirms-dan-caine-to-lead-joint-chiefs-in-late-night-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=2831","title":{"rendered":"Senate Confirms Dan Caine To Lead Joint Chiefs In Late-Night Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate confirmed retired Lt. Gen. Dan Caine as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff early Friday morning, following a vote of 60 to 25. This decision came after Democrats, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), delayed Caine\u2019s nomination in protest against President Donald Trump\u2019s dismissal of the former military leader, Gen. C.Q. Brown Jr. The senators, who are preparing for a two-week recess, argued that Brown\u2019s removal was unwarranted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the lack of clarity surrounding Brown\u2019s exit, Caine garnered bipartisan support during a notably uneventful confirmation hearing, facing no significant opposition to his appointment as the senior uniformed leader of the United States military. The Senate Armed Services Committee, which oversaw the hearing, voted 23-4 to advance his nomination to the full Senate. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), the committee\u2019s chair, urged his colleagues on Wednesday to approve Caine \u201cwithout any delays,\u201d highlighting the ongoing military expansion of China and the collaboration of adversaries against U.S. interests.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump should have the highest-ranking military officer in place without any delays,\u201d he stated, emphasizing that Caine \u201csailed through\u201d the committee\u2019s vote, receiving an overwhelming, nearly unanimous, bipartisan endorsement. The Senate\u2019s approval of Caine\u2019s nomination followed Trump\u2019s unexpected decision in February to remove seven senior officials, including Brown and Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the first female Chief of Naval Operations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1751120\" data-uid=\"0c286\">\n<div id=\"mgw1751120_0c286\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"mgbox card-media\" data-template-type=\"container\">\n<div class=\"mgheader\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate confirmed retired Lt. Gen. Dan Caine as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff early Friday morning, following a vote of 60 to 25. This decision came after Democrats, led by&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2832,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831\/revisions\/2832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}