With their confirmation hearings behind them, the fates of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee for health secretary, and Tulsi Gabbard, his pick for director of national intelligence,
During confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard faced tough senate scrutiny on their controversial pasts.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he wasn’t antivaccine as senators pressed on his past remarks, in the first of two days of hearings over his nomination for health secretary.
A trio of high-profile hearings took center stage on Capitol Hill on Thursday, with senators scrutinizing President Donald Trump’s most contentious remaining nominees. Director of national intelligence pick Tulsi Gabbard and FBI director selection Kash Patel testified for the first time,
President Donald Trump’s most controversial Cabinet nominees have flooded the zone Thursday in back-to-back-to-back confirmation hearings.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s nominee for health secretary, repeatedly confused Medicare and Medicaid. He also tried to convince senators he was not against vaccines, despite past statements.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel are each set to appear before lawmakers during a pivotal day of confirmation hearings Thursday.
To be confirmed as health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can afford to lose no more than three Republican votes if all Democrats are united in their opposition to him.
“Bobby! Bobby!” Supporters decked out in MAHA (“Make America Healthy Again”) pins and hats chanted this as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee for health secretary, entered a packed room for his Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing on Wednesday.
Donald Trump appointed Christopher Rocheleau as the acting administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration. The agency had not had an administrator since the start of Trump’s new term. Eight hostages were released from Gaza by Hamas, and Israel released 110 Palestinian prisoners.
Kennedy faces skepticism from a key GOP senator: After he repeatedly challenged Kennedy’s views on vaccines, Sen. Bill Cassidy, the chair of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, which held Thursday’s hearing, said he was “struggling” with Kennedy’s nomination.