The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick for chairman of the joint chiefs early Friday.
Trump’s nominee, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine, was confirmed by a Senate vote of 60-25, which was bipartisan, but significantly less so than the Senate Armed Services Committee approved his advancement to the Senate floor by a vote of 23-4 earlier this month.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., led opposition to his nomination.
With the confirmation, Caine is the nation’s highest ranking military officer in the government, and chief military adviser to both the president and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
