The Senate on Wednesday voted to advance the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of Health and Human Services along party lines. A final roll call has yet to be scheduled.
The Senate also approved the nomination of former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to lead the intelligence community. Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky was the only Republican to oppose her. No Democrat voted in favor.
Even though there have been questions for months about Gabbard and Kennedy’s ability to be confirmed, most Republicans have rallied to back President Donald Trump’s picks.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said Kennedy and Gabbard would be working “to implement the agenda that the president of the United States has articulated and the one that he carried to the voters in the last election, an election in which the voters gave him a decisive majority at the polls.”
