Alaska's Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski said the quiet part out loud, admitting that she and her GOP colleagues "are all afraid." "We are all afraid," she said on stage at The Foraker Group's annual leadership summit in Anchorage,

Murkowski was one of three Republicans to vote against Hegseth’s nomination late Friday, along with Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. It took Vice President JD Vance’s tiebreaking vote to confirm Hegseth.