CNN, here:
Vice President JD Vance cast the 51-50 tie-breaking vote after former GOP Leader Mitch McConnell and GOP Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine joined Democrats to oppose Hegseth’s nomination. It was just the second time in history that a vice president has broken a tie for a Cabinet nominee – the other being then-Vice President Mike Pence for Betsy DeVos’ 2017 confirmation to lead the Education Department.
Each of those two tie breaking votes were for nominees with questionable competence. And each involved major biases. Each, a mistake, although opinions can differ. In the Hegseth case, Trump threatened showman Ron DeSantis as nominee if Hegseth was not approved. With that, Hegseth looked better than by himself. If the option is Hegseth or a joke, avoid the joke, which was Crabgrass logic in saying Hegseth merited approval in the totality of circumstances, (not by his qualities, but because of DeSantis' defects).
Again, opinions can differ. but Crabgrass opinion is DeSantis would have been an absolute, in all ways, disaster. Hegseth only a Christian Nationalist threat to a status quo. Or as the saying goes, six of one, two dozen of the other.