Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) blocked the Senate confirmation of President Donald Trump’s nominee for CIA director, John Ratcliffe, on Tuesday evening, infuriating Republicans who say Democrats are playing political games and threatening national security.
Ratcliffe’s nomination was supported in a bipartisan 14-3 vote out of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on Monday. Yet Murphy blocked Republicans from confirming it on the Senate floor on Tuesday, arguing Democrats still had “serious concerns” about Ratcliffe.
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton (R-AR) blasted Murphy for blocking Ratcliffe, who was previously confirmed by the Senate as Trump’s director of national intelligence during Trump’s first term. Cotton said:
The only vote we got yesterday was Senator Rubio. Now we’re not going to have a vote today, and apparently
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