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The Senate Committee on Health Education and Pension on Thursday voted to advance Linda McMahon's nomination to lead the Department of Education.

The vote along party lines, 12-11.

McMahon's nomination now advances to consideration on the Senate floor. Senate Majority Leader John Thune will likely begin processing McMahon's full vote on the floor next week. She will ultimately need a simple majority of votes to be confirmed by the Senate.

The vote comes as President Donald Trump is attempting to dismantle the federal Department of Education. If McMahon is confirmed by the full Senate, Trump is expected to sign an executive order directing McMahon to submit a proposal for diminishing the department and then the president said she should "put herself out of a job."

Though during her confirmation hearing last week, McMahon confirmed only Congress could shut down the department.

-ABC News' Arthur Jones II

As President Donald Trump continues to attack Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Vance was asked at CPAC on Thursday about the status of negotiations.

"It's early," Vance said. He praised Trump, saying the president doesn't take anything off the table in negotiations.

Experts, however, have criticized Trump for seemingly ruling out NATO membership for Ukraine and Ukraine returning to its pre-war borders.

"I'll tell you the goals that animate Trump's policy. It's really simple: he wants the killing to stop, he wants to bring lasting peace to Europe -- he doesn't just want to stop it now and have the war restart a month from now -- he wants to bring lasting peace to Europe because the president believes this, and he's absolutely right, peace is in the interest of Russia, it's in the interest of Ukraine, it's in the interest of Europe but most importantly peace is in the interest of the American people."

Vice President JD Vance stoked some controversy last week with his speech at the Munich Security Conference, where he criticized European allies on immigration, free speech and other issues.

At CPAC on Thursday, he stood by the themes in his address after receiving a standing ovation from the audience.

“We cannot rebuild the United States of America or Europe by letting millions and millions of unvetted migrants come into our country and it has to stop," Vance said. He added: "You can't just stop it. You have to allow European peoples, and American people too, to raise issues about it. You have to allow free speech to debate this stop."

Asked about the future of U.S. alliances on the continent, Vance said they would continue to have "important" partnerships with Europe.

"But I really do think the strength of those alliances is going to depend on whether we take our societies in the right direction ... That friendship is based on shared values," he said.

Polygraphs that the Department of Homeland Security administers will include a question about whether the employee had unauthorized communications with the media or a nonprofit organization.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said leaks have stymied immigration enforcement operations and warned that polygraphs may help crack down on leakers, according to a memo described to ABC News.

Noem appeared on Fox News' "Hannity" and confirmed the use of polygraphs to weed out the "leakers," who may have leaked Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations.

"Yes, I do have suspicions," she said. "I need to be sure and I need to be certain, so we have different tools we can use and one of those is ensuring we're using polygraphs to look at all of our employees, all of these people involved in these operations, to make sure they're telling the truth on what they have done in the past that may have jeopardized our operations."

She said DHS is a "national security agency" and a "law enforcement agency" and this is one of the authorities she can use to find out who is doing the "nefarious" activity.

Bloomberg Government was first to report on the memo.

Some DHS components already use polygraph tests when an agent first onboards, for example, U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

-ABC News' Luke Barr