At least three Republican senators on the panel that will decide whether to advance Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination as Director of National Intelligence have not said how they plan to vote, according to Politico—leaving open the possibility she could be the first of President Donald Trump’s nominees to be rejected.
Not all Republicans are on board with the former Democratic congresswoman as she prepares for her confirmation hearing, Eric Garcia reports
While Democrats are busy staunchly opposing Pete Hegseth’s nomination to lead the Pentagon ... which will conduct former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard's confirmation hearing to be the the next director of national intelligence. Leadership views two ...
Okla., predicted that Pete Hegseth will be confirmed as defense secretary on Friday evening, and that Democratic opposition would target Tulsi Gabbard next.
More Trump nominees with potentially rocky paths to confirmation face hearings in the Senate this week, including Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Kash Patel.
Pete Hegseth shared a conservative outlook with GOP senators. Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. do not.
McConnell’s vote against Hegseth was no profile in courage, but let’s hope he has the backbone to also oppose Robert Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard.
Still, the ground seems shakiest under Tulsi Gabbard, the recent Democrat and Bashar al-Assad fangirl, who is improbably gunning to be Director of National Intelligence. She has no intelligence experience, and a troubling history of regurgitating Kremlin-backed conspiracy theories.
Will the Senate GOP confirm controversial picks like Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr.? Here’s the hearings schedule and list of who’s been confirmed.
Trump claims to be focused on national security, but the evidence suggests otherwise. Few of Donald Trump’s foibles have gone undissected, but one glaring thing remains underappreciated: He does not care about U.S. national security.
They’re mad because McConnell had the audacity to speak the absolute truth — that Pete Hegseth, who allegedly drinks too much, paid a woman $50,000 to settle a sexual assault allegation, and drove two nonprofit groups into the ground, wasn’t qualified to be U.S. defense secretary. And he voted against confirming Hegseth.