On Thursday, the Senate will vote to confirm President Donald Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary nominee, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Agriculture Secretary pick, Brooke Rollins.The process of confirmation of more of the president's nominees has been slow and arduous as more executive actions from the White House deepen partisan divides on Capitol Hill.Democrats filibustered on the Senate floor until early Thursday morning, delaying the Kennedy vote as they underscored his support for conspiracy theories about vaccines and other health issues.A preliminary vote for Kennedy passed Wednesday along party lines, and his confirmation appears likely.Education Secretary nominee Linda McMahon, a former TV wrestling executive and Small Business Administrator during the first Trump administration, will testify at her confirmation hearing Thursday.Meanwhile, Trump is preparing an executive order to close the Education Department, which helps fund poor schools, advocates for civil rights, and oversees student loans."I'd like it to be closed immediately," Trump said in remarks Wednesday. "The Department of Education is a big con job."Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins' nomination received a unanimous committee vote, setting her up for what's expected to be a broadly bipartisan confirmation Thursday afternoon.Meanwhile, the Senate confirmed Tulsi Gabbard for Intelligence Director along a nearly party-line vote Wednesday.The Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to advance Kash Patel nomination as FBI Director to the Senate floor after the vote was delayed by a week.Democrats say Patel lied during his confirmation hearing and now want the Justice Department's inspector general to look into whether Patel's been working with the White House on a mass firing of FBI agents who investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack or worked on the president's former criminal cases.The Senate will hold preliminary confirmation votes Thursday for Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler.