The Senate voted 74-25 Thursday to confirm John Ratcliffe as head of the Central Intelligence Agency, moving quickly to install another member of President Trump's national security team during his first week in office.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate confirmed former Texas Congressman John Ratcliffe to serve as the next director of the CIA on Thursday.

President Trump's nominees for top posts in his administration are gearing up for their Senate confirmation hearings, which kicked off earlier this month.

The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead America's premier spy agency and his second nominee to win Senate approval.

Mr. Ratcliffe was known as a loyalist to the president when he served as director of national intelligence in the final year of the first Trump administration. During his confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee last week, he promised to lead a more aggressive spy agency.

Donald Trump's nominee for CIA Director, John Ratcliffe, appears for a Senate Intelligence confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on Jan. 15, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Since launching in 2021, America First Policy Institute has been known colloquially around Washington, D.C., as Donald Trump's "Cabinet in waiting."

at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/John McDonnell) John Ratcliffe, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to be the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency ...

John Ratcliffe, the new Central Intelligence Agency director, said President Trump wants to keep politics “out of the intelligence community.” Ratcliffe joined Fox News’s “Sunday Morning ...

The Senate will vote today on John Ratcliffe's nomination to serve as ... Committee for his confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 15, 2025. John Mcdonnell/AP Later this ...

President Donald Trump has begun his second administration with a series of controversial moves and decisions.

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