{"id":2396721,"date":"2025-01-29T18:44:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T23:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wobbly-confidence-in-gabbard-confirmation-forces-senate-leaders-to-get-creative-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T18:46:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T23:46:37","slug":"wobbly-confidence-in-gabbard-confirmation-forces-senate-leaders-to-get-creative-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wobbly-confidence-in-gabbard-confirmation-forces-senate-leaders-to-get-creative-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Wobbly confidence in Gabbard confirmation forces Senate leaders to get creative &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwobbly-confidence-in-gabbard-confirmation-forces-senate-leaders-to-get-creative-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2396721&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article \u200cdiscusses \u200bthe \u200cchallenges surrounding the confirmation of Tulsi Gabbard as the director of\u200d national intelligence. Senate \u200bRepublicans may utilize the senate Intelligence Committee&#8217;s authority to push her nomination to a floor vote if she does not \u200dadvance through the committee, where\u2064 some members\u2062 are uncertain about her. Typically, a nominee must receive\u200c a favorable committee vote before reaching the Senate \u2064floor, but Chairman\u2064 Tom Cotton could opt to expedite\u200c the process. Senate Majority Leader John Thune expressed reluctance to bypass the committee&#8217;s vote, noting the ideal scenario\u200c is to \u2062have a nominee\u200b come out with committee support. Despite some hard-core \u2062conservative backing for Gabbard, concerns\u2062 arise from her past comments about \u2062russia and othre \u200dcontroversial positions, making her confirmation uncertain, especially among skeptical Republican senators. Gabbard&#8217;s confirmation hearing is scheduled for Thursday, with Cotton assuring that it will\u200b be thorough and fair.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Wobbly confidence in Gabbard confirmation forces Senate leaders to get creative<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1960600\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/senate-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Senate Republicans <\/a>may use the Senate Intelligence Committee&rsquo;s power to force <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/courage-strength-optimism\/3303293\/tulsi-gabbard-right-person-lead-intelligence-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">director of national intelligence<\/a> nominee Tulsi Gabbard to a floor vote if she can&rsquo;t pass through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house-intelligence-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">committee.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>There are several Republicans on the committee who have uncertain views on Gabbard, and only one would need to vote &ldquo;no&rdquo; to stall her nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, a nominee would have to pass through committee before reaching a floor vote, but committee Chairman Tom Cotton (R-AR) could elect to force her through. It&rsquo;s unknown whether Cotton would support an effort to do so, even though he does back Gabbard.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/01\/28\/2025\/republicans-eye-backup-plan-to-confirm-gabbard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">said<\/a> while there are &ldquo;creative ways&rdquo; to get Gabbard out of committee, he doesn&rsquo;t prefer to use them. &ldquo;But obviously, ideally, you want to see a nominee that&rsquo;s coming out of committee with an affirmative vote,&rdquo; he told <em>Semafor<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Thune later shed doubt on forcing her through the committee without a favorable vote, telling <em>Punchbowl<\/em> that he can&rsquo;t see the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AndrewDesiderio\/status\/1884714417918460207\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">committee <\/a>&ldquo;doing that if they vote her down.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Senate Homeland Security Committee pushed Mick Mulvaney&rsquo;s nomination to be Trump&rsquo;s director of the OMB through in 2017 despite having no recommendation from the committee. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_votes\/vote1151\/vote_115_1_00068.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">would<\/a> later pass a confirmation vote 51-49.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of favorable recommendation from the committee will likely do nothing to sway those who remain doubtful on Gabbard, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/tulsi-gabbard-to-have-confirmation-hearing-director-of-national-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">namely<\/a> Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Mitch McConnell (R-KY). All three voted against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth&rsquo;s nomination, forcing Vice President JD Vance to break the tie in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Given the Senate Republican uncertainty, Gabbard may need Vance&rsquo;s help as well.<\/p>\n<p>Their skepticism originates from Gabbard&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">past positive sentiments<\/a> on Russia, her meeting with former Syrian leader Bashar Assad, and her skepticism of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ga-senate-candidate-latham-saddler-we-need-real-leadership-not-celebrities\/\" title=\"GA Senate Candidate Latham Saddler: We Need \u2018Real Leadership,\u2019 Not \u2018Celebrities\u2019\">intelligence programs<\/a> within the United States, positions that could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yes-bidens-hhs-pick-advocates-puberty-blockers-medical-transition-of-minors\/\" title=\"Yes, Biden\u2019s HHS Pick Advocates Puberty Blockers, Medical Transition Of Minors\">raise red flags<\/a> among establishment Republicans. Gabbard, a former Democrat, has alienated both parties at different points but now has her most ardent defenders within MAGA.<\/p>\n<p>Hard-line conservatives like Charlie Kirk, Elon Musk, and former DNC official-turned-MAGA influencer Lindy Li have backed Gabbard&rsquo;s credentials.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Gabbard is indisputably qualified,&rdquo; Kirk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2025\/01\/28\/stop_the_nonsense_and_confirm_tulsi_gabbard_152268.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">wrote<\/a> in an op-ed endorsing the choice. &ldquo;She is a veteran of the Iraq War, the worst of the wars that the intel agencies blundered us into. She spent eight years in Congress and served stints on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miles-anonymous-taylor-accidentally-exposes-the-fraudulence-of-the-mainstream-media\/\" title=\"Miles &#039;Anonymous&#039; Taylor Accidentally Exposes the Fraudulence of the Mainstream Media\">homeland security<\/a>, armed services, and foreign affairs committees, all of them relevant to the job. She has authentic bipartisan credentials: She represented the Democrats in Congress, is the choice of a MAGA president, and has the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MeghanMcCain\/status\/1883214884738875759\">personal endorsement<\/a>&nbsp;of Meghan McCain (a Republican with whom I have no shortage of differences).&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gabbard&rsquo;s Senate intelligence hearing will be on Thursday, and Cotton assures the public it will be a &ldquo;full hearing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I can promise you and all Americans that Tulsi Gabbard is going to have a full hearing on Thursday,&rdquo; Cotton told Fox News. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s going to be just like the hearing that we conducted for [new CIA Director] John Ratcliffe and the hearings that the committee has conducted for nominees from both the Democratic and Republican presidents alike &mdash; no more, no less, no better, no worse.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1960600\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1960600\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate leaders may need to get creative with Gabbard&#8217;s confirmation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2396722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/121824_TULSI_GABBARD-7-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6711,16629,3927,3740],"class_list":["post-2396721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-confidence","tag-confirmation","tag-gabbard","tag-senate"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/121824_TULSI_GABBARD-7-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2396721"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2396725,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396721\/revisions\/2396725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2396722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2396721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2396721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2396721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}