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Three of Trump's most controversial picks face simultaneous grilling

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Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. all have a slew of past controversies — and are not guaranteed a smooth path through Senate confirmation.

Kennedy appeared before the Senate Finance Committee Wednesday , where he stumbled over questions about Medicaid and attempted to reel in his past anti-vaccine statements.

Patel , a hardline MAGA ally Trump tapped to be FBI director, will sit in the hot seat before the Judiciary Committee at 9:30 am ET Thursday .

He vowed on a podcast last year to "shut down" the FBI headquarters and "reopen it the next day as a museum of the 'deep state'.

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