{"id":108908,"date":"2025-02-12T18:03:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T18:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/senate-confirms-gabbard-as-director-of-national-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T18:03:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T18:03:49","slug":"senate-confirms-gabbard-as-director-of-national-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/senate-confirms-gabbard-as-director-of-national-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate confirms Gabbard as director of national intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-02-12\/G_tulsi_021225.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Daniel Heuer\/Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; The Senate confirmed Tulsi Gabbard to serve as director of national intelligence by a vote of 52-48 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Former Republican Leader Mitch McConnell was the only Republican to break ranks and vote against Gabbard&#8217;s nomination. All other Republicans voted for Gabbard and all Democrats voted against her.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the vote, Majority Leader John Thune laid into Democrats for their unified efforts to block and oppose both her and Robert F. Kennedy Jr&#8217;s nominations, arguing that their lack of willingness to support Trump&#8217;s picks demonstrates how &#8220;out of step&#8221; with America the party has become.<\/p>\n<p>Gabbard cleared a key Senate test vote Monday night and was expected to be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Heuer\/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) &#8212; The Senate confirmed Tulsi Gabbard to serve as director of national intelligence by a vote of 52-48 on Wednesday. Former Republican Leader Mitch McConnell was the only Republican to break ranks and vote against Gabbard&#8217;s nomination. All other Republicans voted for Gabbard and<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/senate-confirms-gabbard-as-director-of-national-intelligence\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}