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

Later this afternoon, the Senate will take a procedural vote on Pete Hegseth's nomination to serve as defense secretary. Only 50 votes will be needed to advance his nomination. If he gets the votes, a final confirmation vote could occur on Friday or early Saturday.

Senate leaders are pushing ahead with a series of votes on President Trump’s cabinet nominees, looking to confirm an initial batch by Friday. A vote on John Ratcliffe as CIA Director is

WASHINGTON — Former Long Island congressman Lee Zeldin moved a step closer to confirmation as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency after a Senate committee voted Thursday to recommend that the full Senate approve his nomination.

He has offered a vision for a more aggressive spy agency, and his focus on the threat from China is widely shared by Republican and Democratic lawmakers.

John Curtis Commends Lee Zeldin For His Impact In ‘Getting Republicans Talking About Climate’ During last week’s Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Sen. John Curtis (R-UT) questioned Trump’s EPA Nominee Lee Zeldin about the change of focus by the Republican Party on climate issues.

Americans deserve a clean environment “without suffocating the economy,” Lee Zeldin said during his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday to lead the Environmental Protection Agency ...

Former Congressman John Ratcliffe is the nation's new CIA director after the Senate voted 74-25 in favor of his confirmation on Thursday.

Ratcliffe, 59, is the first person to have served as both director of national intelligence and chief of the CIA.

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

President Donald Trump has kicked off his second term with a flurry of executive actions on immigration, the economy, DEI and more. Trump is discussing his economic agenda in a virtual discussion with those gathered at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

Newly-confirmed CIA Director John Ratcliffe told Fox News the decision to release a Biden-era analysis favoring the COVID-19 lab leak theory is a step toward transparency.