Fox News: Trump nominee Tulsi Gabbard clears last hurdle, heads for final confirmation vote

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Trump nominee Tulsi Gabbard clears last hurdle, heads for final confirmation vote

Tulsi Gabbard faced her final procedural vote on Monday before moving onto a confirmation vote to serve as Trump's Director of National Intelligence (DNI).

                   
                       

President You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login nominee to be Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Tulsi Gabbard, cleared her last procedural hurdle on Monday evening, paving the way for a final confirmation vote later this week. 

The motion passed by a vote of 52-46, along party lines. 

At one time considered perhaps the most vulnerable of Trump's picks, the former Democratic congresswoman got You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, defeating the legislative filibuster's threshold on nominations.

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The Monday vote's outcome was much more certain than that of her Senate Select You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login vote last week, which depended on a handful of senators who had potentially lingering concerns. 

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But Republicans signaled confidence in her confirmation in the full Senate, evidenced by their slating it while Vice President JD Vance is in Europe representing the U.S. at events and meetings, and is not around to break a tie in the upper chamber. Vance notably had to break a tie to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. 

The vote teed up a final confirmation vote on Wednesday, as Democrats are expected to use all 30 hours of post-cloture time to debate, rather than reaching a time agreement with Republicans to expedite it. 

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Gabbard advanced out of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week, snagging the support of crucial GOP Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Todd Young, R-Ind.

In a final vote, Gabbard can only lose 3 Republican votes, assuming she does not get any Democratic support, as was the case in the committee vote. 

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Gabbard already has an advantage over Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, as Collins supports her. The senator was notably one of three votes against Hegseth. 

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