Senate delivers Trump confirmations at breakneck pace with little GOP resistance

Published February 15, 2025 7:00am ET



For all the heartburn over recess appointments to confirm President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, the Senate is breezing through even the most controversial nominees thanks to limited Republican opposition.

The confirmations on Thursday of Brooke Rollins to lead the Department of Agriculture and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be health and human services secretary, whose nomination threatened to split the GOP over his vaccine skepticism, brought the confirmation tally to 16.

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