On Wednesday, the GOP-led Senate confirmed Tulsi Gabbard to become the director of national intelligence in President Donald Trump‘s second-term administration.
Although Democrats and the independents who caucus with them became unified in opposing Gabbard, the Cabinet pick who will now oversee the U.S. intelligence community managed to woo a handful of Republican holdouts concerned over some of her stances on key national security issues.
The final vote, which had been pushed back from the overnight hours while a storm blanketed Washington, D.C., with snow, was 52-48, mostly along party lines. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was the only GOP lawmaker to vote against Gabbard’s confirmation.
Gabbard is a combat veteran, former House lawmaker from Hawaii, ex-vice chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, and 2020 presidential candidate. She broke with the Democratic Party in 2022….
