The Senate likely will vote to confirm Pan Bondi as President Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general Wednesday after she cleared a key political hurdle in the upper chamber.

The Senate on Monday voted 52-46 along party lines to end debate, with Sens. John Fetterman, D-Pa., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., not voting.

Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who voted against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s confirmation, voted for Monday’s measure. Although McConnell voted to move Hegseth’s confirmation to a full Senate vote, he surprisingly decided to vote against the nomination.

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