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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Robert Salesses will serve as acting defense secretary until President Donald Trump's choice for the position, Pete Hegseth, is confirmed by the Senate, two U.S. officials ...
Robert G. Salesses is Deputy Director of Washington Headquarters Services in the U.S. Department of Defense, who served as Acting Secretary of Defense in the Trump Administration from January 20, 2025 to January 25, 2025. [1] He was formerly a U.S. Marine Corps officer and has served in multiple positions in the Department of Defense.
The Pentagon on Monday swore in Robert G. Salesses as the acting secretary of Defense while President Trump’s nominee Pete Hegseth awaits Senate confirmation. Salesses was sworn in just after ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has named an acting defense secretary because his choice to lead the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, has not yet been confirmed by the Senate. Robert Salesses, deputy director of the Pentagon’s Washington Headquarters Service, will fill in as acting secretary of defense, two officials said, speaking on the ...
Secretary of Defense: Pete Hegseth [45] January 25, 2025 (Confirmed January 24, 2025, 51–50) [RC 2] Robert G. Salesses [31] January 20, 2025 January 25, 2025 Deputy Secretary of Defense: Stephen Feinberg [46] Awaiting Senate Confirmation General Counsel of Defense: Earl Matthews: Awaiting Senate Confirmation Chief of Staff to the Secretary of ...
Defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth testifies to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Jan. 14, 2025. ... On Monday, Trump maned Robert Salesses as acting secretary of Defense. Salesses, a ...
The shortest-serving secretary of defense is Elliot Richardson, who served 114 days and then was appointed U.S. attorney general amid the resignations of the Watergate Scandal. (This is not counting deputy secretaries of defense William P. Clements and William Howard Taft IV, who each served a few weeks as temporary/acting secretary of defense).
Acting Defense Secretary Robert Salesses said the troops will fly helicopters to assist Border Patrol agents and help in the construction of barriers. The Pentagon also will provide military aircraft for Department of Homeland Security deportation flights for more than 5,000 detained migrants.