52 senators supported Trump's nominee, 48 voted against.
On Wednesday, February 12, the US Senate voted to appoint Tulsi Gabbard, who is called the most controversial representative of Donald Trump's team, to the post of Director of National Intelligence Trump.
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52 senators supported the candidate for the post, 48 voted against. The vote was largely along party lines, with Democrats and only one Republican, former Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, voting against Gabbard.
McConnell explained his vote against Gabbard by saying she has a “history of troubling errors in judgment.”
Before her appointment, she also faced concerns from several other Republican senators, in particular over her lack of support for Ukraine and her 2017 meeting with former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Gabbard was previously reported to have called Ukraine a “second Afghanistan” and accused NATO of “provoking” Putin to start a war. In addition, she spoke about the alleged 25 biolabs on the territory of Ukraine.
Now the new director of national intelligence will oversee the work of the country's 18 spy agencies – an intelligence community about which she expressed skepticism in the past. Tulsi Gabbard will also be President Trump's chief intelligence adviser.
Recall that the new US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Wednesday, February 12, at NATO headquarters in Brussels said that the American army will not participate in any future peacekeeping mission in Ukraine.
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