Senate advances Elbridge Colby nomination for top Pentagon role

On Monday, the Senate voted to summon leather in Elbridge Colby, prompting national security strategy to near one step of confirming that it is an agent to defend politics, which is the Pentagon’s 3rd position.

The procedural vote, which limits the discussion and carries the final confirmation vote, which was approved by a margin from 53 to 49. Colley’s nomination of the Armed Services Committee last month, and overcame suspicions of the Republican Republicans such as senator Tom Couton, R-RK. , During a closed vote.

Three Democrats broke their party and voted in favor of Colby: Senator Elisa Slocine, De Mish, Mark Kelly, De Ariz, Jack Reed, Rey, and the highest democratic in the Armed Services Committee.

Collby, co -founder of the marathon initiative and former deputy minister of defense for the strategy and development of power within the framework of the Trump administration, is famous for its role in forming the 2018 National Defense Strategy, which re -directed a long -term military strategy towards competing with great power with China.

He has long argued that the US military needs to reduce its resources in the Middle East on a axis to the Indian Pacific region.

Colby recorded strong support from a number of numbers in the Trump world, which increased pressure on the Republican Party skeptics to reach his candidacy.

Vance Capitol Hill visits to urge the members of the Senate to confirm Elberridge Colby for Pentagon No.. 3 after

US Vice Vice President JD Vance went to Capitol Hill to urge Senators to vote for Colibi (Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Vice President JD Vance visited Capitol Hill last month to provide support to his “friend”.

“In many ways, Bridge predicted what we will talk about for four years on the road, five years away on the road, 10 years on the road. He saw about the corners that were very few of the other people they saw.”

“If you look at his long career in the defense policy, he said things, as you know, frankly, the Democrats and Republicans are alienated. Just as things I think both Democrats and Republicans will agree with them.”

During the hearing, the Chairman of the Armed Services Committee for the Senate, Roger Weis, was interrogated The declared position, “America has a strong interest in defending Taiwan, but the Americans can stay without it.”

“It seems that your views about Taiwan’s importance to the United States have largely eased,” Wakeer told COLBY.

Colbey opposed this point, saying that he was highlighting the alarm that decreased the “military balance” in the United States “with regard to China.

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Senator Tom Cotton, R-Ark. To the right, skeptical of the candidacy of Colby at the beginning (Getty Images)

“What I was trying to launch more reference signals is that it is necessary for us to focus and empower our special forces for an effective and reasonable defense of Taiwan and for Taiwanese, as well as the Japanese, to make more effort,” Kulby said.

When pressed by cotton during the session, Colby said he believed that Iran pose a “existential” threat to the United States

“Yes, Iran’s nuclear armed Iran, especially Senator, given that … we know that they have worked on the range of the range of the range of ICBM and other capabilities that would pose an existential risk to the United States.”

He promised to provide “good credible military options” to the president if diplomacy with Iran fails.

It was a different melody from what he was singing in the past years.

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“The only worst thing that Iran’s armed probability of nuclear weapons is the consequences of using force to try to stop it,” Kulby said in 2012.

“I would like to say much about what I was arguing at the time, these talks 15 years ago, and many opponents who felt that they were not official or in some cases even a technical attitude towards employing military force,” said Colby. “This is a lot of what I was arguing. Was my drafting always appropriate, was my exact frame always appropriate?” no. “