Dems delay Patel committee vote, ream Trump FBI pick as danger to US security

Democrats succeeded Thursday successful delaying a committee ballot to beforehand the confirmation of FBI manager nominee Kash Patel until adjacent week astatine least. 

The vote, which was expected to hap astatine 10:15 connected Thursday, was pushed backmost after Senate Democrats demanded a 2nd proceeding from the Trump-aligned erstwhile Defense Department official. 

In a connection Tuesday night, Grassley said attempts by apical Judiciary Democrat Dick Durbin, Ill., and others to unit Patel to attest again were "basesless" arsenic he'd already sat earlier the committee for much than 5 hours and disclosed "thousands of pages" of records to the panel, arsenic good arsenic astir 150 pages of responses to lawmakers' written questions.

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