The Senate voted Thursday to confirm John Ratcliffe as the new CIA director under President Trump.
Ratcliffe, a former Texas congressman, was approved in a 74-25 vote, marking the second major appointment for Trump’s new administration.
During his confirmation hearing, John Ratcliffe vowed to keep politics out of intelligence-related decisions and assured that loyalty tests would not influence the hiring or firing of CIA personnel.
Ratcliffe previously served as Trump’s director of national intelligence during the final eight months of his first term. In May 2020, Ratcliffe was confirmed as President Trump’s Director of National Intelligence (DNI) by a narrow Senate vote of 49-44.
