Pete Hegseth shared a conservative outlook with GOP senators. Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. do not.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s controversial nominee for Health and Human Services secretary, will not get U.S. Senate approval, former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly predicted Monday. “RFK, he’ll go down,” the commentator said on NewsNation’s “On Balance.”

To be confirmed as health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can afford to lose no more than three Republican votes if all Democrats are united in their opposition to him.

The Senate on Friday night confirmed President Donald Trump’s nomination of Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News personality, to become the country’s next defense secretary.

Donald Trump’s Justice Department cited an archaic statute in a legal filing Wednesday, arguing that the president’s executive order ending constitutionally guaranteed birthright citizenship should be totally kosher, since the children of Native Americans weren’t historically considered citizens, either.

The Senate confirmed Pete Hegseth late Friday, swatting back questions about his qualifications to lead the Pentagon.

Robert Kennedy Jr is a “predator” who put mice in a blender to feed his hawks, his cousin has claimed in a letter submitted to lawmakers. Caroline Kennedy claimed that Mr Kennedy, Donald Trump’s nominee for US health and human services secretary, would put chicks and mice in a blender in a “perverse scene of despair and violence”.

Three cabinet nominees ‒ Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel ‒ faced a questions from Senate confirmation hearings Thursday.

Alexandra Sifferlin, a health and science editor for Times Opinion, hosted an online conversation on Wednesday with the Opinion columnist Zeynep Tufekci and the Opinion writers David Wallace-Wells and Jessica Grose about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s first of two confirmation hearings for secretary of health and human services.

Other Republicans who had expressed reservations came home in the end, likely because Hegseth is a true blue MAGA warrior with the full backing of the hardcore base, which made its wishes known in no uncertain terms.

Three Trump picks will get committee hearings on Wednesday as Republicans work to get his nominations confirmed.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), a swing vote on President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees, is a “lean yes” on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after his first hearing before the Senate. Tillis