Trump Nominees Victorious: Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. Are In

Opposition to Trump nominees is over.

President Donald J. Trump congratulates Tulsi Gabbard after she was sworn in as the Director of National Intelligence in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, February 12, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)

It’s a scenario that would’ve been considered unthinkable in 2020, outlandish in 2016, and outright preposterous in 2008. Still, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been confirmed as President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Tulsi Gabbard will serve as Director of National Intelligence.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., once a fixture of environmental activism and Democratic politics, has been confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, will now oversee U.S. intelligence as Director of National Intelligence.

The confirmation of a controversial pick like Robert F. Kennedy Jr signals the end of resistance opposition to Trump's nominees. Democrats and their allies on Capitol Hill are officially powerless to stop President Donald Trump’s nominees from marching on Washington.

How did the Democratic Party get here? How on earth did these two staunch Democrats end up working for Donald Trump?”

If you’d told a political insider in 2020 that two lifelong Democrats — one a Kennedy, no less — would end up in a Trump administration, they might have laughed you out of the room. But in 2025, the old…