WASHINGTON — FBI Director-designate Kash Patel advanced Tuesday in a first procedural vote on the Senate floor Tuesday, with Republicans cheering that President Trump’s pick “has the votes” and will be confirmed later this week.

The Senate voted 48-45 along party lines to open debate on the nominee, starting the countdown for 30 hours of discussion before Patel is expected to receive final approval Thursday, sources close to the confirmation process tell The Post.

GOP senators have praised Long Island native Patel, 44, for his experience as a prosecutor and former national security aide in the first Trump administration — as well as his firm commitment to rooting out political “weaponization” at the FBI and getting back to the basics of the bureau’s law enforcement duties.

In his confirmation hearing, Patel pledged to “cut in half” the number of offenses committed across broad categories of crimes, including the “100,000 rapes … 100,000 drug overdoses from Chinese fentanyl and Mexican heroin, and … 17,000 homicides.”

The nominee, who has celebrated rank-and-file FBI agents for being “courageous, apolitical warriors of justice,” will serve a 10-year term if confirmed as one of the nation’s chief law enforcement officers.

https://nypost.com/2025/02/18/...pected-confirmation/

Patel will get confirmed, with the possible exception of Mitch, Republicans will vote for and confirm him. Various senators throughout the last several weeks stated that the one cabinet member that would be questionable was Gabbard and she's in.

I can't wait for him to get to work!

I would pay money to be at the FBI headquarters Friday morning.

^^^^
Yeah. I expect many FBI critters will be wishing that they’d accepted President Trump’s buy-out offer.

Democrats: don't think we're going to forget your voting en masse against most of Trump's outstanding nominees; and in particular against Kash who opened up the whole Russian collusion hoax for us to see.

Democrats meanwhile....


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It's the best game they got.

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That you Democrats, for alerting me to this awesome product. Where can I get one!!!!

Its time for McConnell to retire. His RINO act is getting tiring.

“Collins to vote against Patel nomination”

https://thehill.com/homenews/s...kash-patel-fbi-vote/

What a reprehensible hag.

This mornings vote to advance Patels confirmation was 51-47, Collins the only Republican to oppose, and two senators missed the vote, John Boosman (R) and John Fetterman (D). And yes, Collins is the only Republican to vocally oppose Patel. The final vote is at 1:45pm. And to my utter surprise, McConnell voted yes to advance to this afternoon.

https://theconservativetreehou...5pm-est-livestreams/

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It’s time for McConnell to retire. His RINO act is getting tiring.

He just announced he is not seeking another term.

McConnell voted Yes.

The dumb cuntary continues with Collins and Murkowski.

Patel just went over the top with 51-49; CONFIRMED !!!!