In a near party-line vote, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as the Trump administration's Health and Human Services secretary on Thursday morning. He was sworn in later in the afternoon.

The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate has given its stamp of approval to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, despite his noted vaccine skepticism and other conspiracy-based beliefs on myriad health subjects.

After Democrats tried to stall his confirmation in hopes of garnering some GOP opposition to his nomination, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as HHS secretary.

President Trump welcomes his second global leader this week with a visit from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday. Their meeting and joint press conference took place just hours after Trump called for reciprocal tariffs that he maintains will crack down on unfair and discriminatory tariffs from both adversaries and allies.

The new guy heading up the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is an avowed anti-vaxxer with a spray tan.

The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

RFK Jr was a controversial nominee due to his his anti-vaccine views and embrace of health-related conspiracy theories.

President Donald Trump and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said they will be studying the "threat" to children posed by antidepressants and obesity medications.

After Democrats tried to stall his confirmation in hopes of garnering some GOP opposition to his nomination, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as HHS secretary.

The Senate on Thursday confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, voting to approve one of President Donald Trump’s most controversial Cabinet choices. Republicans muscled Kennedy through the chamber 52-48 on the strength of their slim majority.

Democrats said Kennedy’s history of criticizing widely accepted vaccines made him a dangerous choice to lead HHS.

In a 52-48 vote on Thursday, the U.S. Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the secretary of the Department of Health & Human Services. From the Mountain State, both senators—Republicans Shelley Moore Capito and Jim Justice—voted to confirm Kennedy.