Senate Confirmation Votes
Tracking how the Senate exercises its constitutional "advice and consent" power over presidential nominees.
Confirmation Vote Margins Over Time
Yea minus Nay for each vote
Pete Hegseth
Secretary of Defense
Vice President Vance cast tie-breaking vote
Marco Rubio
Secretary of State
Unanimous bipartisan confirmation on Inauguration Day
Pam Bondi
Attorney General
Replaced Matt Gaetz who withdrew
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Controversial due to vaccine skepticism
Scott Bessent
Secretary of the Treasury
Broad bipartisan support for hedge fund manager
Tulsi Gabbard
Director of National Intelligence
Former Democratic congresswoman turned Republican appointee
Kash Patel
Director of the FBI
Narrowly confirmed amid oversight concerns
Ketanji Brown Jackson
Associate Justice, Supreme Court
First Black woman on the Supreme Court
Lloyd Austin
Secretary of Defense
First Black Secretary of Defense; required congressional waiver
Merrick Garland
Attorney General
Previously denied Supreme Court hearing in 2016
Janet Yellen
Secretary of the Treasury
First woman to serve as Treasury Secretary
Xavier Becerra
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Narrowest Cabinet confirmation in decades
Alejandro Mayorkas
Secretary of Homeland Security
First Latino and immigrant to lead DHS; later impeached by House
Gigi Sohn
Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission
Withdrawn after failing to secure enough Democratic votes
Rahm Emanuel
Ambassador to Japan
Progressive Democrats opposed over Laquan McDonald case
Amy Coney Barrett
Associate Justice, Supreme Court
Confirmed 8 days before presidential election
Brett Kavanaugh
Associate Justice, Supreme Court
Narrowest Supreme Court confirmation since 1881
Neil Gorsuch
Associate Justice, Supreme Court
First confirmation after nuclear option invoked for SCOTUS
Jeff Sessions
Attorney General
Elizabeth Warren silenced for reading Coretta Scott King letter
Betsy DeVos
Secretary of Education
First Cabinet pick requiring VP tie-breaking vote
Rex Tillerson
Secretary of State
Former ExxonMobil CEO; most opposition for a SoS nominee in decades
Elena Kagan
Associate Justice, Supreme Court
Fourth woman to serve on the Supreme Court
Sonia Sotomayor
Associate Justice, Supreme Court
First Hispanic Supreme Court Justice
Hillary Clinton
Secretary of State
Third woman Secretary of State; confirmed on Obama's first full day
Eric Holder
Attorney General
First African American Attorney General
Loretta Lynch
Attorney General
Confirmation delayed 166 days — longest AG wait in history
Caroline Kennedy
Ambassador to Japan
Confirmed by voice vote; JFK's daughter
John Ratcliffe
Director of the CIA
Former DNI; broad bipartisan support for CIA role