Robert F. Kennedy Junior and Tolsi Gabbard wiped a major obstacle on the way to the Senate's assertion of the roles of the cabinet that US President Donald Trump nominated her.
Kennedy was exploited to be the next US Minister of Health, while Gabbard was chosen to be the Director of National Intelligence. Both are considered controversial choices and were sure to have sufficient support for the full Senate vote.
However, on Tuesday, Kennedy was approved by the Senate Finance Committee in a 14-13 vote divided on party lines. Republicans only voted for him.
Meanwhile, Gabbard survived a narrow 9-8 vote in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee – which is also divided into party lines.
All of their nominations will now move to a vote before the full US Senate, which Republicans control 53-47.
Kennedy's nomination is offered
During the confirmation process, Kennedy received some opposition from the legislators from both sides because of his doubts about vaccines. Some have also asked whether he was expert enough in health matters, including American public health infrastructure and health care programs, to take on this role.
However, he spent many of his sessions, insisting that he did not oppose vaccines – nor conspiracy theorists – but he only supports strict safety tests.
However, Senate members often scream at his previous comments, including the appearance of podcast where he said: “There is no safe and effective vaccine.”
Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent organizing and working with the Democrats, praised the “MAKECECA Health Again” logo. But the Senator then, later showed pictures of children's clothes printed with the Anti -Qazi Mistakes sold by the defense of children's health, an organization that the candidate goes until recently.
Kennedy replied that he no longer had supervision of the group.
Although Kennedy's testimony last week did not win any Democrats in his team, he managed to win the decisive support from Republican Senator Louisiana Bill Cassidy.
Cassidy, a doctor, expressed doubts about Trump's candidate, but he announced that he would support him after he obtained “serious obligations” by Kennedy and the White House. This wipes the way for a full vote in the Senate.
Kennedy is the son of Robert Kennedy and my nephew, President John F. Kennedy. He initially proposed a candidacy for a democratic presidential nomination in 2024, but later installed an independent show before leaving and Trump Trump.
The American political descendant initially made his name as an environmental lawyer before resorting to criticism of American health care – including food safety and anti -accurate call – in recent years.
As Minister of Health, Kennedy will be responsible for huge agencies such as Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), National Health Institutes (NIH) and medical care services and medical aid centers.
Kennedy suggested that he would shoot many people working in these federal agencies, and Trump said he would give his candidate to the wide weapon to repair American food and health care systems.
Smoothing Republicans do not prevent Gabbard
Gabbard also faced opposition to some of the previous controversial positions, including its decision to meet and defend former Syrian President Bashar Asad in 2017 in addition to a previous boost to enabled the National Security Agency Edward Snowden.
At one time, Gabbard was pressured by Republican and Democratic Senate members about whether Snowden – who moved to Russia to avoid American law enforcement – was classified as a “traitor”. She refused directly, saying only that he “broke the law.”
She added that he revealed “illegal and unconstitutional programs” that led to reforms, but confirmed that they will work to prevent illegal leaks and disclosure in the future.
Several members of the Senate indicated that Gabbard defended Russia's invasion of Ukraine at the beginning of the war. Democratic Senator Michael Bennett Gabbard accused of agreeing that a “totalitarian state” was “justified in rolling over the peaceful borders of Ukraine.
However, Republican Senators who were initially skeptical in Gabbard gathered behind her.
On Monday, Senator Susan Collins from Min said that Gabbard had her concerns. Senator Todd Young of Indiana announced a day later that, too, Gabbard will return after receiving her commitment to “the progress of our national security.”
Gabbard is a former member of Congress from Hawaii and veteran military warriors who served with a medical unit in Iraq.
She was a member of the Democratic Party, and she was defending liberal reasons such as the government's health care while serving in Congress. In 2020, she was nominated for a democratic presidential nomination, later retreated and Joe Biden supported.
Gabbard left the Democratic Party in 2022, and criticized them from being “warm” led by “cowardly”. It became independent before it became a republic in 2024 and supported the Trump presidential show.
If the full Senate is confirmed, it will turn a budget of more than 70 billion dollars (55 billion pounds) and supervise 18 intelligence agencies.
