President Donald Trump said in a congratulatory media post that Pam Bondi would be sworn in Wednesday as attorney general following confirmation by the Republican-led Senate on Tuesday night. The Senate is advancing other Trump nominees,

A Tampa-area native, Pam Bondi became the second Floridian and the third woman to hold the office of U.S. attorney general.

The Senate confirmed Pam Bondi as U.S. attorney general Tuesday evening, putting a longtime ally of Donald Trump at the helm of a Justice Department that has already been rattled by the firings of career employees seen as disloyal to the Republican president.