The Senate will hold a final vote on nomination for RFK JR to serve as Trump’s Health Secretary

The Senate is expected to confirm Robert F. Kennedy younger as a secretary for health care and human services (HHS) on Thursday President Donald Trumpcabinet.

Kennedy launched his latest calculation over the controversial nomination on Wednesday after a Republican controlled Senate of the Party 53-47 Posivatives were clototure, which began the clock that marked the final call for certificate.

Kennedy, a well -known skeptics and environmental crusade running for the White House in 2024 before ending his offer and supporting Trump, needed a simple majority that the Senate confirmed.

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Kennedy survived Refunding Senate Senate Listening to Confirmation of the End Last Month, when Trump’s candidate for leading 18 powerful federal agencies that supervise food and health of nations have faced many verbal fireworks during past controversial comments, including his repeated claims in recent years Connection of vaccines autism, which revealed scientific research.

During the hearing, Democrats have also seen Kennedy’s service as a chairman or chief legal health defense counselor, a non -profit organization that has been founded against vaccines and suing the federal government several times, including the challenge over approval Covid-19 vaccine for children.

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With Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee who vote not to improve Kennedy, in the spotlight Senator Bill CassidyR-L., Doctor and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Work and Pensions (Assistance).

Cassidy issued a last minute approval before voting at the Committee level, giving Kennedy to win a party 14-13 to improve his confirmation in the entire Senate.

Cassidy emphasized during Kennedy’s hearing that “your past is undermined by trust in vaccines with unfounded or misleading arguments,” which left doubt about his support.

However, after talking to the nominee again, Cassidy pulled out a long list of obligations Kennedy took over him, including a three -month hearing before the Assistance Committee; meetings several times a month; This Assistance Committee may select representatives on committees or commissions that inspect vaccine safety; and 30-day notification to the Committee, a plus hearing, for all changes in the vaccine safety examinations.

“These obligations and my expectation that we can have a great employment to make America healthy again, the basis of my support,” Senator said.

Earlier this week, another Republican senator who had reservations regarding Kennedy’s confirmation announced the support to the candidate.

“After an extensive public and private testing and a thorough examination of his nomination, I will support Robert F. Kennedy younger,” Susan Collins from Maine said on Tuesday.

Another Republican Republican who was on the fence, Senator Lisa Murkowski from Alaska, also voted to improve Kennedy’s nomination.

Murkowski noted that “there are still concerns about Mr. Kennedy’s attitudes about vaccines and his selective interpretation of scientific studies”, but that the candidate “took numerous obligations to me and my colleagues, promising to work with Congress to secure a public access to a public approach Information and for the recommendation of a vaccine on the basis of data, based on evidence and medically healthy research. “

Former longtime Senate leader GOP, Senator Mitch McConnell, a major advocate of the vaccine, also voted to improve the Kennedy nomination.

Kennedy, whose open views Great farm And the food industry also caused controversy, he said he wanted to move the focus of agencies that would monitor the promotion of a healthy lifestyle, including the overhaul of food guidelines, aiming for ultra -treated foods and reacing the root causes of chronic disease.

Moving is part of his campaign “make America healthy again.”

“Our state will not be destroyed because we are wrongly wrong with the border rate of taxes. It will be destroyed if we make this issue wrong,” Kennedy said as he pointed to chronic diseases. “And I’m in a unique position so I can stop this epidemic.”

The 71-year-old Scion from the most demanding political dynasty in the country launched a long campaign for a democratic presidential nomination against then President Joe Biden in April 2023. However, six months later, he switched to an independent running for the White House.

Trump regularly argued Kennedy during his independent presidential offer, accusing him of being a “radical left -wing liberal” and “Democratic Plant”.

Kennedy fell back, claiming in the post on social media that Trump’s killer against him was “barely coherent barracks of wild and inaccurate claims”.

However, Kennedy again gave the main titles last August when he gave up the presidential offer and supported Trump.

While Kennedy has long identified himself as a Democrat and repeatedly referred to his late father, former senator Robert F. Kennedy and his late Uncle, former President John F. Kennedy – who were both killed in 1960 – Kennedy has built ties in recent years with this extreme right leaders partly because of its high skepticism of the vaccine.

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After months of criticizing, Trump called Kennedy “a man who was an amazing champion for so many of those values ​​we all share.”

Shortly after the election in November, Trump announced that Kennedy would nominate in his HHS guide cabinet.

The last vote of the Kennedy nomination comes the day after another controversial election, director of the National Intelligence Service Tulsi Gabbard, confirmed the Senate in voting 52-48.