BREAKING🔥: FBI Director-designate Kash Patel advanced Tuesday in a first procedural vote on the Senate floor Tuesday, with Republicans cheering that President Trump’s pick “has the votes” and will be confirmed later this week.

The Senate voted 48-45 along party lines to open debate on the nominee, starting the countdown for 30 hours of discussion before Patel is expected to receive final approval Thursday, sources close to the confirmation process tell The Post.

GOP senators have praised Long Island native Patel, 44, for his experience as a prosecutor and former national security aide in the first Trump administration — as well as his firm commitment to rooting out political “weaponization” at the FBI and getting back to the basics of the bureau’s law enforcement duties.
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