The Senate confirmed Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday to be America's spy chief, in a major victory for President Trump.

The vote places a sharp critic of the Deep State at the helm of the intelligence community, which has long been one of Trump's top antagonists.

Trump showered praise on Gabbard during a swearing-in ceremony in the Oval Office, as he declared Gabbard would "eliminate corruption, shrink the bloated bureaucracy and restore honesty, integrity and trust to the national security state.”

“There’s nobody like her for this job,” he added. “This was a very easy one for me. She was recommended by some of the top people in that world.”

Gabbard takes the oath

Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman and Army veteran, echoed Trump's sentiments about the loss of public trust and the need to reform the "weaponized" intelligence community.

“Unfortunately, the American people have very little trust in the intelligence community, largely because they’ve seen the weaponization and politicization of an entity that is supposed to be purely focused on ensuring our national security,” Gabbard said.

Members of Gabbard's former Democratic party opposed her nomination, painting her as an asset of foreign autocrats like Russia's Vladimir Putin - insinuations Gabbard blasted as "lies and smears" in a blistering statement to the Senate that tallied up the lies and abuses of America's spy agencies.

“For too long, faulty, inadequate, or weaponized intelligence has led to costly failures and the undermining of our national security,” Gabbard told senators.

"The most obvious example of one of these failures is our invasion of Iraq based upon a total fabrication or complete failure of intelligence.”

Ex-Democrat overcomes skepticism and smears

Every Democrat voted against Gabbard, a one-time rising star in the Democratic party who resigned her position as vice chair of the DNC to support Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign. It later emerged that the DNC rigged the primary in favor of Hillary Clinton, who years layer infamously labeled Gabbard a Russian asset based on no evidence.

Sanders voted against Gabbard's nomination to lead the Office of The Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), drawing criticism from some who called him disloyal or a tool of the party establishment.

The final vote was a remarkable display of just how much the parties have changed since President Trump launched his historic political career. Gabbard's criticism of "forever wars" and the Deep State would have been anathema to the GOP of George W. Bush, who created the ODNI during the War on Terror.

But during Gabbard's heated nomination battle, it was mostly Democrats questioning her loyalty to America - citing her past comments blaming NATO for the war in Ukraine and her sympathy for whistleblower Edward Snowden, whom she refused to call a traitor.

Although Gabbard faced some initial skepticism from Republicans, she overcame those doubts, sailing through with just one GOP defector, longtime Trump critic Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), voting no.