The Senate on Friday confirmed Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine to lead the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a bipartisan 60-25 vote.
Caine’s confirmation comes less than two months after President Donald Trump removed Gen. C.Q. Brown from the post. Brown, who was also an Air Force general, was nominated by former President Joe Biden and confirmed in 2023.
Caine is considered an unconventional choice because he will be the first chairman to not have served as a four-star general, and he came out of retirement in order to fill the role. But Trump has claimed that Caine is qualified for the position because he was “instrumental” in the defeat of ISIS during the president’s first term.