Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) is planning to hold a public hearing on the Iran war in May amid rising Republican pressure for an endgame to the conflict from President Donald Trump.
“I approve of what the president’s doing,” Wicker said Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the Senate’s top defense appropriators are heading to the Pentagon Tuesday afternoon to meet with Secretary Pete Hegseth and Acting Comptroller Jay Hurst on the FY2027 military budget request, Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) said. Coons, the top Democrat on the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, will attend the meeting with Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the chair of the panel.
