Many nominees have met with senators individually. Now, they will go before the committees overseeing the agencies that Trump wants them to run.

The former Texas congressman previously led the nation's spy agencies as director of national intelligence in the last months of the first Trump administration.

Join Washington Post reporters for live coverage of the confirmation hearing of Pete Hegseth to be the next secretary of defense. The former Fox News host has faced multiple controversies, including allegations of heavy drinking and sexual misconduct,