The United States Senate has confirmed the appointment of John Ratcliffe to head the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Thus, Mr. Ratcliffe became the second member of the new US administration, which was approved in the Senate.

According to AP, 74 senators voted for the appointment.. Another 25 voted against, and one legislator did not participate in the vote at all.

Immediately after the vote in the Senate, the new director of the CIA took the oath, and it was accepted by Vice President Jay Di Wence.

Ratcliffe briefly served as CIA director during Donald Trump's first term as president.. But he is considered a loyal person to Trump, and as a legislator, he categorically opposed Trump’s first impeachment.

At the Senate hearing on his nomination to head the CIA, Ratcliffe said that intelligence must "

Ratcliffe was born in Mount-prospect, Illinois, in 1965 in a family of teachers. Lawyer by education, until 2004 he was a private lawyer, and then worked in the US prosecutor’s office in the Eastern District of Texas (in 2007 he was appointed temporary district prosecutor).

Ratcliffe served as a member of the US House of Representatives from 2015 to 2020, and headed the CIA from 2020 to 2021..

Donald Trump decided to this post with his candidate for this post..