U.S president-elect Donald Trump has picked Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman and an outspoken critic of the Biden administration’s foreign policy, to become his director of national intelligence.
Gabbard, 43, left the Democratic party in 2022 and was considered a possible candidate to become Trump’s Republican running mate.
She would take over from Avril Haines as top official in the sprawling US intelligence community after Trump starts his second term in January.
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She is anticipated to be easily confirmed in the Senate, where Trump’s Republican colleagues will have at least a 52-to-48-seat majority beginning early next year.
However, the former US representative from Hawaii may meet opposition, particularly from President Joe Biden’s fellow Democrats, due to her previous criticism of the current administration’s…