Key Trump Nominees Await Confirmation After Bruising Hearings

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🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Three of President Trump’s most contested nominees — Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. — sat for confirmation hearings last week, facing scathing questions from Senate Democrats about their qualifications, judgment and ability to lead critical federal departments. The Senate Finance Committee is set to vote Tuesday morning on whether to put Kennedy’s nomination to lead the Health and Human Services Department to a floor vote. We look at the status of all the nominations along with other breaking national political news. Guests: Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent, NPR. Javed Ali, associate professor of practice at the School of Public Policy, University of Michigan; served in the Federal Bureau of Investigations, Defense Intelligence Agency, and the Department of Homeland Security. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.4	A Senate panel has advanced the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services Secretary, while another
1:11.5	contested nominee Tulsi Gabbard's key committee vote is underway. Cash Patel, Trump's pick to lead
1:16.9	the FBI, sat for his confirmation hearing last week, has the administration pushed out high-level
1:22.2	FBI officials and career prosecutors in an unprecedented purge. It's just one of several shocks to the federal
1:28.9	government, as Elon Musk also tries to shudder the nation's 60-year-old humanitarian agency,
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