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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has taken different positions on the issue, has pledged to promote President Trump’s anti-abortion agenda in a bid to get confirmed as health secretary.
For the last 50 years, almost every nominee to lead the Pentagon has been a consensus pick who drew lopsided margins of support in the Senate. Pete Hegseth’s nomination has been a notable exception.
The settlement’s existence after a 2017 accusation had been documented before the defense secretary nominee’s confirmation hearing this month, but the amount had not been known publicly.
The new administration does not yet have a confirmed defense secretary, attorney general or solicitor general in place.
The removal of a portrait of Gen. Mark A. Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, from a Pentagon hallway was among the president’s early actions.
The vote may indicate whether fresh allegations about his personal conduct that surfaced this week are enough to stop his confirmation.
The program, which has functioned quietly for decades, is the latest target of Trump administration appointees who are eager to exert more control over who gets government jobs.
President Trump is taking dramatic steps in seeking to place his stamp on the federal bureaucracy.
L. Brent Bozell III, once a critic of President Trump, now runs an organization that criticizes the media for perceived bias against Republicans, particularly Mr. Trump.
Mr. Curran, a current agent, will take the helm of an agency that has been the focus of several investigations since the July assassination attempt against President Trump.