Posted on 02/13/2025 8:20:26 AM PST by Red Badger
Politics Senate voting on RFK Jr.'s confirmation as HHS secretary By Kaia Hubbard
Updated on: February 13, 2025 / 10:41 AM EST / CBS News
Washington — The Senate appears poised to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday, following weeks of questions surrounding whether the controversial nominee would win the Senate's approval.
After all Republicans voted to advance Kennedy's nomination in a procedural vote Wednesday, the Senate is taking a final vote on his confirmation Thursday morning.
Kennedy, 71, is a longtime environmental lawyer and anti-vaccine activist whose family has mythic status in Democratic politics. The nephew of President John F. Kennedy and the son of Robert F. Kennedy launched his own White House bid in 2023. And although he initially sought the Democratic nomination, Kennedy changed his bid to independent, before dropping out to endorse President Trump in August.
Before entering politics, Kennedy worked for two decades as president of the Waterkeeper Alliance, a nonprofit. He also founded Children's Health Defense, which has launched legal challenges against vaccine requirements and approvals, and served as its chairman beginning in 2016. Kennedy is married to actor Cheryl Hines. He has six children.
If confirmed, Kennedy would be at the helm of the sprawling HHS department, which includes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Food and Drug Administration.
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Has 51 votes now!
51 to 47. Comfirmed.
Congratulations JFK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Confirmed, then.
Boy that was fast. Kash voted out of committee so he should be next.
MAHA!
51 he’s IN.
👍
Get ready for the boat to be rocked.
I would not vote for RFK Jr. for President but he will be good in HHS.
Ok Bobby... you have been crusading for years to do something to improve the health of America. By the grace of God, you now unexpectedly find yourself in a position of power to do something to help. We are behind you. Go for it!
(Congratulations JFK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
JFK?
More Dem tears. RFK, Musk and Trump, three former ‘Dems’ that are now driving Democrats and RINOs mad. Well, ‘more mad’ I guess.
MAHA baby!
I hope that this works out. He was one of my less favorite nominees that Trump put forward. I think that this may have been sort of a political “Thank You” by Trump to Kennedy.
Democrats in Congress have done nothing but lie about him for the past 2 weeks
Trump has assembled the very best department heads and cabinet of my lifetime! They have two years to get the job done. With God’s grace, more people will wake up after two years’s success and sweep more of the vile Democrats out of Congress.
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