Washington (AP) – conspiracy theories about vaccines. Secret meetings with dictators. A fond list.
President Donald Trump-Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel-Flood the most controversial cabinet candidate on Thursday in back-to-back-to-back.
The rush of claims, promises and test umbrellas did not appear in a political vacuum. The vertebral day day 10 of the recent White House Designation was all when Trump scolded how the hiring of the diversity caused tragic aircraft and helicopter crash outside the Washington Ronald Reagan National Airport.
And it restricted a turbulent week after the White House abruptly stopped the federal financing for programs, which Americans under the guidance of Trump’s household choice Russ to reverse the course, rely abrupt itself under the guidance of a public uprising.
“The American people did not vote for this kind of senseless chaos,” said Senator Patty Murray, D-Wash.
It was all tough to confirm even the most steadfast republicans who are asked to confirm Trump’s cabinet or to make accusations of an army of online foot soldiers who aggressively promote the agenda of the White House. A majority vote in the Senate, which is directed by the Republicans 53-47, is required for confirmation and leaves little space for disagreements.
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Tulsi Gabard defends her loyalty – and makes some entry -level red
Gabard is considered the most endangered Trump’s picks and may lack the votes from Trump’s party to confirm the confirmation of the director of the National Secret Service. However, her hearing before the Senate’s intelligence agency offered a roadmap for confirmation.
It opened with the chairman, Senator Tom Cotton, R-Mark. He claimed that giftbard is a foreign “asset” that is hidden for another nation, probably Russia. He said that he had checked around 300 pages of several FBI background reviews and she was “clean as a pipe”.
The Senator of Virginia, Mark Warner, the top democrat in the committee, asked whether she could build up the needed trust at home and abroad to do the work.
Bombard, a lieutenant colonel in the army reserve, defended her loyalty to the United States. She declined Senator Jerry Moran, a Republican in Kansas, when he asked if Russia would get a pass from her.
“Senator, I am offended by the question,” said Gabard.
She was pressed on her secret trip in 2017 to meet the then Syrian President Bashar Assad, who has fallen from rebels since then and fled to Russia, defended her work as diplomacy.
Gabard may have brought some standards into harmony with a potentially skeptical republican. Senator Susan Collins from Maine asked whether Gabard would recommend a pardon for Edward Snowden. The former government contractor was charged with espionage after he had held an abundance of sensitive intelligence material and had flown to the residence in Russia.
Bombard, who described Snowden as a brave whistleblower, said it was not her responsibility to “represent” for actions in connection with Snowden “.
Gabard collected a remarkable confirmation and was presented by an influential voice in the secret services – former Senator Richard Burr, a Republican, the chairman of the intelligence agency shot.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pressed the security of the vaccine again
Kennedy stood before a second grill day to become a secretary of health and human services, this time in the Senate Health Committee when the senators examined his previous views against vaccines and whether he would prohibit the abortion enclosure.
But what skeptical democratic senators have driven is whether Kennedy is trustworthy – if he adheres to his previous views or has shifted to recent ones – who repeated from his cousin Caroline Kennedy that he is hungry after power.
“You have spent your entire career undergoing the America’s vaccination program,” said Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn.
Senator Tim Kaine, D-VA. ‘T. “
“Wow,” said Kaine.
Kennedy replied that his father, the overdue Robert F. Kennedy, told him that people lies in power positions.
But Kennedy’s long-standing advocacy in the anti-Accacine community continued to dominate his hearings.
Senator Maggie Hassan, Dn.H., suffocated the tears when she said Kennedy that his work caused earnest damage by what is already “settled” -instead of helping the country, recent treatments and answers to promote in healthcare.
But Senator Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala.
Kennedy urged whether he would ban the abortion drug Mifiston and said it was from Trump.
“I will implement his directive.”
A combative Kash Patel sparingly with senators about his past
Kash Patel was perhaps the most combative candidate in a testing hearing before the Senate Justice Committee as a candidate who headed the FBI.
Patel, a former Capitol Hill employee, was confronted with his own past words, writings and public comments and repeatedly protested that his views were removed from the context as “unfair”.
Senator Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Patles read false claims for voter fraud in the 2020 elections and another about his published “Fenielist”, to which former Trump officials belong to the president.
“We’ll come to you,” she read and said.
Patel rejected her quotes as “partly statement” and “wrong”.
Klobuchar, annoyed, told the senators: “They are his own words.”
Patel stimulated Trump in Capitol after January 6, 2021 and produced a version of the national anthem with Trump and the so-called J6 choir of the accused as a fundraiser. The president played the song that opened his campaign ranges.
In a lively moment, Senator Adam Schiff, D-Calif., Patel to turn around and look at the US Capitol police officers who protect the listening room.
“Tell them that they are proud of what they did. Tell them that they are proud that they have collected money from people who have attacked their colleagues that Pepper sprayed them who defeated them with poles, ”said Schiff.
Patel fired back: “This is a pitiful lie, you know. I have never accepted violence against law enforcement authorities. “
Patel said that he supported Trump’s comprehensive pardon of supporters, including violent rioters, not charged with the attack of January 6th.
“I do not agree with the commutation of a punishment of a person who committed violence against law enforcement authorities,” said Patel.
In a further development of the cabinet, the Republicans in the Senate ‘household committee promoted Trump’s candidate that Russ, Russ Russ, has confirmed the meeting after the Democrats have been confirmed.
VOUGHT was an architect of project 2025 and influential in the memo of the White House to freeze federal financing this week that panicked in communities across the country. Advocacy organizations asked for freezing in court, and the White House quickly raised it for the time being.
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Associated Press Writers Farnoush Amiri, Matt Brown and Stephen GroVes contributed to this report.
