President Trump’s CIA Director Pick Gets Confirmed By Senate

On Thursday, the Senate confirmed President Trump’s CIA Director Nominee, John Ratcliffe, to lead the CIA.

Ratcliffe received an overwhelming bipartisan support in his favor.

Ratcliffe was confirmed in a 74-25 vote.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune stated, “He will bring valuable knowledge and experience to his new post.”

CONFIRMED: CIA Director John Ratcliffe pic.twitter.com/5MUGsXBpBR

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) January 23, 2025

Check out what The Hill reported:

The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe to lead the Central Intelligence Agency in overwhelming bipartisan fashion, making him the second member of President Trump’s national security team to be approved by the upper chamber.

Senators confirmed Ratcliffe in a 74-25 vote. Twenty-one members who caucus with Democrats voted with every present Republican. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) did not vote.

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“He will bring valuable knowledge and experience to his new post,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said on the floor earlier this week, pointing to Ratcliffe’s tenure as director of national intelligence (DNI) and on the House Intelligence Committee. “Mr. Ratcliffe brings the right experience and the right approach to the CIA, and I look forward to working with him in his new position.”

Ratcliffe’s nomination cleared the Senate Intelligence Committee by a vote of 14 to 3. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the panel’s vice chair, was among Ratcliffe’s backers.

Republicans, however, were unable to process him as quickly as they had hoped. Thune hoped to confirm him by Tuesday night or Wednesday, but Democrats threw up a last-minute roadblock in order to further delay Pete Hegseth’s confirmation to run the Pentagon.

#BREAKING: John Ratcliffe has been confirmed as Trump’s CIA Director, 74-25

NOW CONFIRM PETE HEGSETH! pic.twitter.com/2x9aAGKbes

— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 23, 2025

Per NBC News:

The Senate voted Thursday to confirm John Ratcliffe as the next CIA director under President Donald Trump, approving the second high-level appointment for the new administration.

The vote was 74-25 in favor of Ratcliffe, a former congressman from Texas who served as Trump’s director of national intelligence for the last eight months of his first term. Twenty-one Democrats joined their Republican colleagues in supporting Ratcliffe’s nomination.

Republican leaders failed to achieve unanimous support to fast-track Ratcliffe’s nomination to the floor earlier this week and had to jump through some procedural hoops.

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