Trump's transportation secretary nominee advances to final Senate vote

Sean Duffy, the president's prime to pb the Department of Transportation, has precocious to the last circular of the Senate confirmation process that volition determine whether helium assumes a apical Cabinet presumption successful President Donald Trump's administration.

Duffy was tapped by Trump to caput the proscription bureau for the adjacent 4 years, undergoing a confirmation proceeding with the Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee, which precocious his candidacy with bipartisan support.

The Senate held a cloture ballot for Duffy connected Monday, which passed unanimously. 

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The cloture ballot came conscionable minutes aft the Senate voted to corroborate Scott Bessent to service arsenic the caput of the treasury.

The Senate's last ballot connected whether to corroborate Duffy, a erstwhile Republican congressman, to the Cabinet station is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.