RFK Jr. Confirmed, Trump Announces Reciprocal Tariffs, Future of Education Department | Feb. 13

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🗓️ 13 February 2025

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On today’s Top News in 10, we cover: Senate votes 52-48 to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Linda McMahon, President Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Education, testifies before the Senate. Trump announced that the U.S. will impose reciprocal tariffs on all major U.S. trading partners, including allies. Also on today’s show: The Senate Judiciary Committee votes to advance Kash Patel to a full Senate vote. The Hill reports that GOP leadership in the House has struck a deal with the more conservative contingent of House members on a budget resolution. Links From Today’s Show: Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.com/email Subscribe to our other shows: The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-tony-kinnett-cast Problematic Women: https://www.dailysignal.com/problematic-women The Signal Sitdown: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-signal-sitdown Follow The Daily Signal: X: https://x.com/DailySignal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailysignal/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDailySignalNews/ Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@DailySignal YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DailySignal Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheDailySignal Thanks for making The Daily Signal Podcast your trusted source for the day’s top news. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and never miss an episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	All of President Trump's cabinet picks have been confirmed thus far, the latest being Robert F. Kennedy
0:35.9	Jr. I'm Virginia Allen and this is the Daily
0:38.9	Siddles top news in 10 for Thursday, February 13th. Today, the Senate voted 52 to 48 to confirm
0:53.8	Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services.
0:58.7	On this vote, the ayes are 52. The nays are 48th confirmation is confirmed.
1:07.6	RFK was one of President Donald Trump's most controversial cabinet selections, but there was only one Republican who voted against Kennedy, and that was former Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.
1:20.2	Some big changes are expected at HHS under Kennedy's leadership.
1:25.2	And here with us to discuss all of those is the director of the Center for Life, Religion, and Family at the Heritage Foundation. Jay Richards, Jay, thanks for being here.
1:33.0	My pleasure, Virginia.
1:34.1	Well, let's start with this Fox News article. They broke the news this afternoon that this first initiative that Kennedy is going to be tackling is going to be chairing the Make America Healthy Again
1:46.3	Commission.
1:47.5	And at the very top of the list for this commission is looking into the root causes of childhood
1:53.6	chronic diseases.
1:55.2	Let me get your reaction to that, Jeff.
1:56.5	This is best possible news.
1:58.6	If anyone listens or now reads Kennedy's speech when he endorsed Donald Trump way back
2:04.1	in August of 2024, what you'll notice is, of course, it's an endorsement of Trump and
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