The Senate is planning to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services secretary and Brooke Rollins to lead the Department of Agriculture on Thursday.
The Senate on Wednesday voted to advance Kennedy along party lines. The chamber also approved the nomination of former Democratic Hawaii 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.”
