Tulsi Gabbard was confirmed by the Senate as President Donald Trump’s Director of National Intelligence (DNI).

The Senate confirmed Gabbard’s confirmation in a 52-48 vote on Wednesday.

Per USA Today, in this role, Gabbard will oversee ā€œthe 18 agencies within the U.S. Intelligence community, serving as the president’s top adviser on intelligence matters.ā€

She was Trump’s 14th Cabinet confirmation, after Wednesday’s vote.

Gabbard previously served in the U.S. House representing Hawaii as a Democrat.

She ran for president as a Democrat in the 2020 presidential election. She then dropped out and endorsed now-former President Joe Biden.

However, in October 2022, Gabbard left the Democratic Party.

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She said at the time that the Democratic Party ā€œis now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issueĀ & stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are hostile to people of faithĀ & spirituality, demonize the policeĀ & protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans, believe in open borders, weaponize theĀ national securityĀ state to go after political opponents, and above all, dragging us ever closer to nuclear war.ā€