The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the next HHS secretary.
The vote to confirm was 52-48, with former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky the only Republican to vote no.
Kennedy, an environmental lawyer, faced tough questioning in two Senate confirmation hearings about his familiarity with Medicare and Medicaid and his history of pushing anti-science claims about the safety of vaccines, which Democrats cited in arguments against his confirmation and experts have told Healio should disqualify him from running HHS. Kennedy’s stated goals of