The Senate voted on Tuesday in accordance with party lines to improve the Kasha Patel nomination nomination, president Donald Trump Choose for the FBI director, cleaning procedural obstacles to setting up the final voice on the controversial alliance of Trump to run the Federal Agency for Law.
MPs in the upper chamber voted 48-45 to improve Patel nomination, because Democrats worry that they would act as a loyalist for the president and aim for the political enemies of the administration.
This sets the final vote on confirmation later in the week. Some of the other Trump more controversial types – including the new Minister of Defense of Peta Hegsetth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – They have received enough support from the Republican MPs who want to fall in order to encourage the president’s agenda.
Nomination of kasha patel to run the FBI Clean the first great obstacle of Senate
Kash Patel, the election of President Donald Trump to be the director of the FBI, appears before the Senate Justice Committee at his certificate hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, on Thursday, January 30, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Former official of the Ministry of Intelligence and Defense in Trump’s first term, Patel supported the transformation of the FBI, including expanding his role to execute Trump’s mission aimed at immigration.
Was a vocal critic of the past FBI investigations In Trump, including Trump’s wrongly solving classified documents, his attempts to cancel the 2020 election and revealed charges of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Patel is forbidden to have a lack of experience in managing compared to the past Director of FBI for his many flammable past statements, including the invitation of investigators who questioned Trump “to the Government gangsters” and claiming that at least some accused were charged in 6 January 2021. , Capitol rebellion were “political prisoners.”
Kash Patel, the election of President Donald Trump to be the director of the FBI, appears before the Senate Justice Committee at his certificate hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, on Thursday, January 30, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Democrats also criticized Patela for supporting false claims about voter fraud in the 2020 elections and his refusal to confirm that former President Joe Biden had defeated Trump in the election of that year. But Patel still received the support of many Republicans, including moderate.
“I talked to more people I respect about Kasha Patel this weekend – both for and against. Those who worked closely with Kash, I will vote for his confirmation,” Senator Louisiana Gop Bill Cassidy said on Tuesday.
Kash Patel, the election of President Donald Trump to be the director of the FBI, appears before the Senate Justice Committee on his certificate hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, on Thursday, January 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Patel said at his hearing on a certificate that Democrats had taken out some of his comments from context or misunderstood his view, including when he suggested the exclusion of the FBI headquarters, DC and transforming it into a “deep state” museum. Patel also denied the charges that the involvement of his book on the list of government officers, which he claimed to have been part of the “deep state” was a “list of enemies”, pushing for that claim as a “complete misconception.”
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IN Justice Committee Last week he voted 12-10 on party lines to improve his nomination into the entire Senate.
Reuters and Associated Press contributed to this report.
