Senate Easily Confirms Mike Pompeo as Trump’s Secretary of State

Mike Pompeo at an event marking the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in Washington on June 16, 2017. Win McNamee/Getty Images

The Senate voted to confirm CIA Director Mike Pompeo to be the Secretary of State on Thursday with a comfortable vote of 54-41.

The swearing-in ceremony was expected right after the vote, according to the New York Times. Pompeo would then race to a plane waiting to take him to Belgium for a NATO meeting.