The Senate on Thursday morning confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services and Brooke Rollins for Agriculture secretary.
Kennedy, one of President Donald Trump’s more contentious nominees, won the support of almost every Republican, except Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell.
Rollins got a 72-28 vote on the floor, with 19 Democrats voting in favor. Even though she passed the House Agriculture Committee unanimously, two panel members — New York’s Kirsten Gillibrand and Minnesota’s Tina Smith — voted “no” on the floor.
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Trump tapped Rollins from the America First Policy Institute, a conservative think tank she founded and led after serving as a policy adviser in his first administration.
