Elbridge Colby, President Donald Trump’s candidate to serve as a policy defense secretary, was confirmed by a Senate Voting 54-45 on Tuesday, without the help of Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky).
Colby, who served as Deputy Secretary of Deputy Strategy Defense and the Trump’s first administration, has been supported by the leaders of the first United States movement against attacks Of the globalists, Breitbart News reported in February.
“The DC SWamp fears Bridge because they know that it is 100% loyal to the foreign policy agenda of my Padrea America First in the Department of Defense,” said Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, Breitbart News at that time. “All the Maga Movement will observe this vote very closely.”
While a source revealed that Sen. According to the reports, Tom Cotton (R-AR) had “Policy Conerns” with some of Colby’s positions “to prevent Iran getting a nuclear weapon,” McConnell was the only Republican to vote against his confirmation on Tuesday.
“The long public registration of Elbridge Colby suggests a willingness to rule out the complexity of the challenges faced by the United States, the critical value of our allies and partners and the urgent need to invest in the hard power to preserve the leader of Leam Sadid”, the former republican conement of the Senate:
“Leaving Ukraine and Europe and minimizing the Middle East to prioritize Indo-Pacific is not a smart geopolitical chess movement,” he continued. “It is the geostrategic self -harm that incorporates our adversaries and drives wedges between the United States and our allies to exploit.”
Vice President JD Vance Tok A X to call McConnell’s vote “One of the great acts of political meanness that I have seen ”:
The sens. Sens. Mark Kelly (Az), Jack Reed (RI) and Elissa Slotkin (MI) joined the Republican Party to vote to confirm Colby to the third position of the Pentagon range, while Republican senator Dave McCormick (PA) did not vote, accordance toward Senate press gallery.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseeth, whom Colby will report in his new position, congratulated the new secretary on social networks and said he We hope to “work together to put our warriors first and strengthen our national defense”:
Olivia Rondeau is a Breitbart News political reporter based in Washington, DC. Find it in X/Twitter and Instagram.
