{"id":25711,"date":"2025-02-21T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=25711"},"modified":"2025-02-21T01:30:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T00:30:49","slug":"trumps-fbi-pick-kash-patel-gets-big-news-after-key-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=25711","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s FBI Pick Kash Patel Gets Big News After Key Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kash Patel\u2019s confirmation to become the next FBI Director advanced in the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate after a 48\u201345 procedural vote. The Senate will debate Patel\u2019s nomination for 30 hours before a final vote on Thursday. Republicans praised Patel\u2019s experience as a prosecutor and national security aide under Trump, highlighting his commitment to refocus the FBI on law enforcement and end political bias. In his confirmation hearing, Patel vowed to reduce major crime categories significantly. However, Democrats opposed his nomination, accusing him of lying during his testimony. Patel, a former public defender and prosecutor, was also involved in exposing the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. Trump appointed Patel to combat crime, immigration issues, and restore FBI integrity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kash Patel\u2019s confirmation to become the next FBI Director advanced in the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate after a 48\u201345 procedural vote. The Senate will debate Patel\u2019s nomination for 30 hours before a final vote on Thursday. Republicans praised Patel\u2019s experience as a prosecutor and national security aide under Trump, highlighting his commitment to refocus the FBI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25712,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25711\/revisions\/25712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}