Trump Nominee Confirmed Despite GOP Efforts To Derail Pick
NEW: Trump Nominee Confirmed Despite GOP Efforts To Derail Pick
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on April 8, 2025
By Chris Powell
On Tuesday, the Senate confirmed Elbridge Colby as Under Secretary of Defense, handing President Donald Trump a key win even as several GOP senators attempted to derail the nomination. Colby, a hawkish defense strategist and co-founder of The Marathon Initiative, was confirmed in a 54-45 vote.
The position ranks third at the Pentagon and places him in charge of briefing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on matters of defense policy. Despite being a Trump-aligned pick, Colby’s nomination drew pushback from some Republicans who argued his past foreign policy views clashed with the new administration’s strategic goals.
However, a bloc of moderate Republicans and Democrats ultimately pushed the confirmation through. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) broke from his usual pro-defense stance by voting against Colby, despite being one of Washington’s most vocal supporters of U.S. military strength and global alliances like NATO.
“Abandoning Ukraine and Europe and downplaying the Middle East to prioritize the Indo-Pacific is not a clever geopolitical chess move. It is geo-strategic self-harm that emboldens our adversaries and drives wedges between America and our allies for them to exploit,” McConnell said in a statement.
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