The wide-ranging role would mean she oversees US intelligence agencies like the CIA, FBI and the National Security Agency (NSA).

Tulsi Gabbard said she refuses to be anyone’s “puppet” and promised to end what she called the weaponization of intelligence, according to prepared remarks she’s set to deliver at her confirmation hearing Thursday to be the next director of national intelligence.

If confirmed, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard would become the youngest-ever DNI. Sources tell ABC News the vote on her nomination is expected to be close.

Donald Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence faces battle in Senate over Assad regime relationship

Most Republican senators who are undecided on former Democratic Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination to serve as director of national

The Republican Party of 2025 is now the political home of dissent, challenge, and hope that a system as broken as ours can be fixed. These are the disrupter DNI, HHS and FBI picks chosen by our disrupter president, Donald J. Trump. Now let’s see what the new “Hope and Change” party might do.

Key appointees of United States President Donald Trump to major positions in government, including Tulsi Gabbard and Kashyap Patel, face Senate hearings on Thursday to approve their appointments. On Wednesday, Robert F Kennedy Jr faced a barrage of questions during a contentious Senate hearing on his nomination to be Trump’s health secretary.

The push for Gabbard comes ahead of her confirmation hearing Thursday before the Senate Intelligence Committee.

That she’s soft on Russia isn’t even the biggest problem with her DNI nomination.

Tulsi Gabbard, chosen by President Donald Trump to be his intelligence czar, on Thursday faces what could be the toughest confirmation hearing of any of his top nominees, with Democrats and some Republicans preparing to grill the former congresswoman on her 2017 trip to Syria,

President Trump's nominees for top posts in his administration are gearing up for their Senate confirmation hearings, which kicked off earlier this month.