The US Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s nomination of retired Marine Corps General John Kelly as Secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security, Sputnik reported.
As the lawmakers continued to cast ballots on the Senate floor Friday evening, Kelly cleared the 51 vote threshold needed for confirmation before the voting was complete.
Prior to his retirement in 2016, Kelley was the most senior US military officer to lose a son or daughter in battle. His son, Lieutenant Michael Kelly, was killed after stepping on a land mine in 2010 while serving in Afghanistan.