Having sided with Bashar al-Assad while a member of the Democratic Party, the former congresswoman's hard-right turn and sympathy for the Kremlin have the intelligence community deeply concerned. View

A vote to confirm Gabbard would be another victory for Trump's push to secure quick Senate approval for his nominees. The Senate's Republican majority leader, John Thune, planned

The Senate advanced Gabbard's nomination in a party-line procedural vote Monday night, teeing up a vote on final passage.