Senate Majority Leader John Thune had called out Democratic Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy for delaying the vote on a “key national security position.”

The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director, giving President Trump the second member of his new Cabinet. Ratcliffe was director of national intelligence during Trump’s first term and is the first person to have held that position and the top post at the CIA,

The Senate voted overwhelmingly to confirm former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe to lead the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

John Ratcliffe, a former congressman and Director of National Intelligence, has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). This marks the second nomination by Donald Trump that has received Senate approval.

The former Texas congressman said he wanted to the CIA to bring back the recruiting ideal of ‘a Ph.D. who could win a bar fight.’

The US Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe to head the CIA in a 74-25 vote. Ratcliffe, who served as director of national intelligence during President Donald Trump’s first term, said last week at his confirmation hearing,

So we formed a new China mission center, the only single-country mission center that we have at this agency. We have tripled the budget at CIA for the China target across the whole CIA.

CIA director Billl Burns believes Chinese President Xi Jinping has directed his military to be capable of moving against Taiwan by 2027.

In an exit interview with NPR's , CIA Director William Burns says he still thinks "there's a chance" for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.

Trump's pick to be CIA director promised in his confirmation hearing to hone in on setting strong intelligence collection priorities and "demanding relentless execution."

The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director, giving President Donald Trump the second member of his new Cabinet.

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.