It’s no secret that four of Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees—Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon, Kash Patel at the F.B.I., Tulsi Gabbard as D.N.I., and R.F.K. Jr. at H.H.S.—face uncertain futures on the Hill. Indeed, almost everyone is wondering whether Senate Republicans will reject their troubled nominations or whether they’ll sail through, but some early signs are emerging. In recent days, for example, a cascade of Senate Republicans have come out in support of Hegseth, despite a blistering account in The New Yorker of his drunken antics and financial mismanagement while running a pair of veterans nonprofits, NBC’s reporting on how Hegseth “drank in ways that concerned his coworkers” at Fox News, and an email from Hegseth’s own mother accusing him of “abuse” and “debasing” women.