Former Representative Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump's nominee for Director of National Intelligence (DNI), is one of the only members of his Cabinet's national security team who has not yet even been scheduled for a Senate hearing. It's a person.
Senate officials familiar with the matter told Breitbart News on Monday that the FBI's background investigation into Ms. Gabbard is nearing its longest run yet, with another Senate hearing between the 24th and 48th. The matter will be brought before the Information Committee. For hours. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, is expected to formally file a notice to schedule Gabbard's confirmation hearing once the FBI background check documents are submitted to the committee. has been done.
That's where Senate Democrats come in. If they don't agree to expedite Gabbard's hearing, Senate Democrats said: Mark Warner (D-Va.) is the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, so he's the star here. In that case, the committee's regulations require the committee to give notice of the hearing seven full days after it is filed. That means Gabbard's confirmation hearing could stretch into next week, and full Senate confirmation into February, depending on how stupid Democrats are about this whole process.
Gabbard and many people close to Trump would like to see Senate Republicans really aggressively lash out at Senate Democrats on this issue as well, multiple sources familiar with the process told Bright. told Bart News. But so far, Senate Republicans have been less aggressive in publicly criticizing Democrats here. President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance on Monday, a source close to Senate leadership said, as Republicans rapidly grow frustrated with Democratic obstruction and deep state efforts to delay President Trump's Cabinet picks. The situation could change within days of the inauguration.
The Senate Intelligence Committee requires candidates under consideration to submit several documents. The first element is a filing Gabbard has already filed with the Office of Government Ethics. The second is an FBI background check, and the window for a final decision is quickly closing. An agreement between the Trump transition and the federal government limits the timing of FBI background checks to 14 days, and Senate officials say the FBI began the process with Gabbard around January 8. . That means the documents need to be brought before the committee later this week, no later than Wednesday, and as soon as that's done Mr. Cotton is expected to notice a hearing just seven days later.
But again, if Warner and the Democrats stop talking nonsense, Cotton could schedule a hearing sooner, perhaps as early as Wednesday or Thursday of this week. That's what happened in the case of John Ratcliffe, President Trump's nominee to head the CIA, who will actually hold a hearing before the FBI documents are submitted, and depending on whether Democrats agree to move forward, he will be given a hearing on Monday, depending on whether Democrats agree to move forward. There is even a possibility that it will be approved by the full US Senate by the second half of the session. Mr. Ratcliffe has an approval vote and will be confirmed. The only question is whether Senate Democrats will agree to streamline confirmation votes or resist expedited confirmation.
Interestingly, four years ago, when former President Joe Biden's DNI nominee was up for confirmation, the Senate literally agreed to confirm her (Avril Haines) on Inauguration Day. Haines received 84 votes, including votes from several Republicans who have not yet fully endorsed Gabbard. There is absolutely no justification for Republicans who voted for Haines not to vote for Gabbard, because Haines is a complete radical leftist. They include Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.). Voting for Haines and then not fully supporting Gabbard would be seen as a complete betrayal of national security and a deranged denialism of the election results after November 5th.
Moreover, the longer these establishment Republicans withhold their support for Gabbard publicly, and the more Democrats continue to use all the procedural tricks to prolong this, the more they will undermine national security, and the more these senators will ultimately bear personal responsibility for emboldening the villains. Actors who are active on the world stage. Then there's the radical leftist who supports “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” and who is currently serving as acting DNI until Gabbard's confirmation.
Of course, Senate Republicans who have not publicly supported Ms. Gabbard at this point, are actively working to speed up the confirmation process, and are pressuring Democrats to move quickly, have told the DNI's office that He would be personally responsible for instilling insanity. The current Trump administration.