The Senate voted to confirm former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard as the country’s top U.S. intelligence official despite some lawmakers sounding the alarm over her past actions. The Senate voted 52 – 48 to confirm Gabbard to become the next Director of National Intelligence.
Notably, the longtime former Republican leader Mitch McConnell voted against Gabbard’s appointment to the role. He was the lone Republican ‘no’ vote on her confirmation.
Senate Democrat Leader Chuck Schumer proclaimed on the floor just before Gabbard’s confirmation vote, ‘Every single Democrat, I am really proud to say, will oppose this awful nomination, because we simply cannot, in good conscience, trust our most classified secrets to someone who echoes Russian propaganda and falls for conspiracy theories’.
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