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 “the 18 agencies within the U.S. Intelligence community, serving as the president’s top adviser on intelligence matters.”
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.
She said at the time that the Democratic Party “is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue & stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are hostile to people of faith & spirituality, demonize the police & protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans, believe in open borders, weaponize the national security state to go after political opponents, and above all, dragging us ever closer to nuclear war.”
