The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted to confirm Brooke Rollins, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump and former White House policy advisor who has expressed doubt about climate change, to lead the U.

Brooke Rollins, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be Agriculture secretary, speaks during her Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee confirmation hearing in the Dirksen building on Jan. 23, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Rollins served in the final year of Trump’s first term as acting director of the White House's Domestic Policy Council.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., will lead the nation’s largest health and human services agency after today’s US Senate vote. Many physicians and public health experts opposed the controversial nominee over Kennedy’s history of spreading misinformation about vaccines,

Kennedy Jr., a vocal vaccine skeptic and activist lawyer, was confirmed Thursday as the nation's new health secretary. The Senate voted largely along party lines to put Kennedy at the helm of the $1.7 trillion U.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as HHS secretary in a 52-48 Senate vote, with GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell voting no.