US Senate confirms Robert F Kennedy Jr as Health and Human Services leader

The United States Senate has approved former environmental lawyer Robert F Kennedy Jr to lead the federal government’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in the latest controversial vote over a cabinet nominee picked by President Donald Trump.

But Thursday’s vote was narrow, given Kennedy’s history of embracing anti-vaccine views and health-related conspiracy theories.

Fifty-twoof the 100 members of the Senate voted yes, all of them members of Trump’s Republican Party. Democrats and independents lined up to offer 48 “nay” votes.

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