RFK Jr. confirmed as HHS secretary with support from all GOP senators except McConnell

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday to be President Donald Trump’s secretary of health and human services, capping off a weekslong political battle that threatened to divide Republicans.

Kennedy cleared the GOP-controlled chamber mostly along party lines, 52-48, to become Trump’s 15th Senate-confirmed nominee in the first weeks of his second term. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), a victim of childhood polio who criticized Kennedy’s stance on vaccines, voted “no.”