← Chronicle · Confirmation · February 13, 2025

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services, 52–48

Senate vote: 52–48

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed by the Senate as Secretary of Health and Human Services on February 13, 2025, by a vote of 52–48, and was sworn in the same day as the department’s 26th Secretary.

The mission that started here is the health portfolio this chronicle tracks under the Health & MAHA hub: chronic disease, food policy, and drug pricing — the Make America Healthy Again program Kennedy leads at HHS, with Dr. Mehmet Oz at CMS beneath him. His full record is carried on this site in full and, in dedicated depth, on the sister site RFK Team Report.

Sources: Senate confirmation record, February 13, 2025 (vote, date, and same-day swearing-in banked in this site’s research cluster B); Department of Health and Human Services.