Senate narrowly confirms Trump nominee Kash Patel for FBI director

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Washington Post

Updated February 20, 2025 at 2:26 p.m. EST


The Senate on Thursday narrowly voted to confirm Kash Patel as the FBI’s ninth director, installing a close ally of President Donald Trump and a staunch critic of the bureau to lead the country’s premier law enforcement agency.

Patel was approved 51-49, a remarkably tight margin for a position that historically has seen nominees win overwhelming bipartisan support. Each of the last three FBI directors garnered the votes of at least 92 senators.

While Democratic senators expressed deep concerns about Patel, pointing to his history of inflammatory rhetoric and calls for retribution against perceived enemies, many of their Republican counterparts hailed him as the person needed to fix an agency they say has become politicized.

The GOP-majority Senate has approved every Trump nominees to come before the chamber so far, though three Republican defections on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth meant Vice President JD Vance, who serves as Senate president, was called in to cast the tiebreaking vote.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/20/kash-patel-fbi-senate-confirmation-vote/

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. Patel is going to destroy the FBI to make tfg happy

Link to tweet

[Lovie777]

2. These people are going to use our military, ICs, DOJ, top AG as weapons against .....

the American people.

I blame republicans.

[IA8IT]

4. and their FOXed in the head tv and radio talking heads

[orangecrush]

3. Welcome to the police state

Expect prominent Dems to be arrested and jailed.

[bsiebs]

5. Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska were the lone Republican holdouts.

[in2herbs]

6. They are not deserving of applause for their courage. nt

[Lulu KC]

20. Wow

Susan Collins actually listened to her concerns!

[LiberalArkie]

7. Hopefully it wasn't bipartisan was it?

[BumRushDaShow]

8. No.

(ETA - waiting for final roll call but all Ds/Is voted no and 2 Rs voted no)

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Yeah - had been waiting for the roll call

Edited to note that all Ds/Is voted no (with 2 Rs voting no). I.e., it wasn't "bipartisan" to approve.

[LiberalArkie]

13. This was the wrong confimation

[Wiz Imp]

9. 51-49. All Democrats voted NO

This is the 6th nominee for which all Democrats voted NO.

[LiberalArkie]

11. Rosen (D-NV), Yea

Nope...I am Wrong again.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. That's the vote for Loeffler not Patel (from yesterday)

They haven't put up the final Roll Call for Patel.

[LiberalArkie]

15. Correctomondo.. I just selected the most current one for today..

Kelly Loeffler, of Georgia, to be Administrator of the Small Business Administration

[BumRushDaShow]

18. I had to do a double-take on the dates and which vote but I know when they have these Roll calls

the final tallies aren't uploaded until much later! They had the Cloture vote up, which was the same spread.

[Solly Mack]

16. FUBAR America

[2naSalit]

17. He won't last five...

Scaramuccis before he meets with a breath - taking event from which he will not resume the practice.

[BumRushDaShow]

19. Finally tally

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00061.htm#position

YEAs ---51
Banks (R-IN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blackburn (R-TN)
Boozman (R-AR)
Britt (R-AL)
Budd (R-NC)
Capito (R-WV)
Cassidy (R-LA)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Cotton (R-AR)
Cramer (R-ND)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Curtis (R-UT)
Daines (R-MT)
Ernst (R-IA)
Fischer (R-NE)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hagerty (R-TN)
Hawley (R-MO)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Husted (R-OH)
Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
Johnson (R-WI)
Justice (R-WV)
Kennedy (R-LA)
Lankford (R-OK)
Lee (R-UT)
Lummis (R-WY)
Marshall (R-KS)
McConnell (R-KY)
McCormick (R-PA)
Moody (R-FL)
Moran (R-KS)
Moreno (R-OH)
Mullin (R-OK)
Paul (R-KY)
Ricketts (R-NE)
Risch (R-ID)
Rounds (R-SD)
Schmitt (R-MO)
Scott (R-FL)
Scott (R-SC)
Sheehy (R-MT)
Sullivan (R-AK)
Thune (R-SD)
Tillis (R-NC)
Tuberville (R-AL)
Wicker (R-MS)
Young (R-IN)

NAYs ---49
Alsobrooks (D-MD)
Baldwin (D-WI)
Bennet (D-CO)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Blunt Rochester (D-DE)
Booker (D-NJ)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Collins (R-ME)
Coons (D-DE)
Cortez Masto (D-NV)
Duckworth (D-IL)
Durbin (D-IL)
Fetterman (D-PA)
Gallego (D-AZ)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Hassan (D-NH)
Heinrich (D-NM)
Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Hirono (D-HI)
Kaine (D-VA)
Kelly (D-AZ)
Kim (D-NJ)
King (I-ME)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Lujan (D-NM)
Markey (D-MA)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)
Ossoff (D-GA)
Padilla (D-CA)
Peters (D-MI)
Reed (D-RI)
Rosen (D-NV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schiff (D-CA)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Slotkin (D-MI)
Smith (D-MN)
Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warner (D-VA)
Warnock (D-GA)
Warren (D-MA)
Welch (D-VT)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)

[underpants]

21. Jesus.

[Skittles]

23. I'll expand on that thought

JFC

[mackdaddy]

22. Of all the incompetent Boob Trump has nominated, Ka$h may be the most deranged.

I can't believe the entire government is being wrecked from inside.

And it was some sort of huge crime for Biden to just try to help people with student loans.

And the MAGAs are whooping it up.

Just wait until the next big hurricane or fire season, or health crisis.

No protection against spies, terrorists, natural disasters, child predators. But the gardener will be deported.

[iemanja]

24. McConnel voted for him

Last edited Fri Feb 21, 2025, 09:05 PM - Edit history (1)

Only Collins and Murkowski voted against.