Senate confirmation hearings are under way for Donald Trump’s cabinet nominations.
All cabinet-level positions require a majority vote of senators to be approved. With a current 53-seat Republican majority, Trump’s more fraught nominees can only afford to lose three Republican senators, assuming Democrats are uniformly opposed.
Marco Rubio was the first cabinet appointee to win confirmation, skating through with a unanimous vote in his favor. John Ratcliffe, Pete Hegseth, and Kristi Noem, have also secured confirmation, with Hegseth requiring Vice-President JD Vance to cast a tie-breaking vote.
