FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2017 file photo, Treasury Secretary-designate Steven Mnuchin testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee. Mnuchin was confirmed by the Senate as Treasury Secretary on Feb. 13. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump's Cabinet confirmations (all times EST):

Steven Mnuchin has been sworn in as the next treasury secretary.

Mnuchin (mih-NOO'-chin) took the oath of office in the Oval Office Monday night.

President Donald Trump says that Mnuchin spent his entire career making money in the private sector and now will go to work for the American taxpayer.

Trump says Americans should know that "our nation's financial system is truly in great hands."

Mnuchin was confirmed by the Senate late Monday despite strong objections from Democrats who said the former banker made much of his fortune by foreclosing on struggling homeowners during the financial crisis.

Republicans say Mnuchin's background in finance makes him well qualified for the job.

The Senate has confirmed physician David Shulkin to serve as secretary of Veterans Affairs in the Trump administration.

Shulkin is a former Obama administration official who had served as the VA's top health official since 2015.

He is the first non-veteran to lead the government's second-largest department.

Shulkin has pledged a more modest approach to fixing the VA than had been suggested by Donald Trump on the campaign trail. The 57-year-old physician has ruled out wide-scale firings and privatization of the embattled agency as ways to reduce the length of time veterans must wait for medical care.

The VA has nearly 370,000 employees and an annual budget of nearly $167 billion.

The Senate has confirmed Steven Mnuchin as treasury secretary despite complaints by Democrats that the former banker ran a "foreclosure machine" when he headed OneWest Bank.

Republicans said Mnuchin's long tenure in finance is an ample prerequisite for the Treasury job. Mnuchin is also a former top executive at Goldman Sachs.

Democrats complained that Mnuchin made much of his fortune by foreclosing on families during the financial crisis.

Mnuchin assembled a group to buy the failed IndyMac. He renamed it OneWest and turned it around, selling it for a profit in 2014.

Mnuchin has said he had worked hard during the financial crisis to assist homeowners with refinancing so they could remain in their homes.

Four Republicans on the Senate committee considering President Donald Trump's nominee for labor secretary aren't saying publicly if they will vote for him.

It would only take three Republicans to derail Andrew Puzder's nomination in the full Senate if every Democrat votes against him.

The four senators — Susan Collins of Maine, Tim Scott of South Carolina, Johnny Isakson of Georgia and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — have said they're waiting for Puzder to answer questions at Thursday's confirmation hearing before they make up their minds.

Collins on Monday also became the first Republican to say publicly that she is evaluating abuse accusations leveled three decades ago by Puzder's ex-wife. Lisa Fierstein has since recanted, most recently writing to senators last month that the fast food executive was never violent.

Mitt Romney is urging the Senate to confirm fast-food executive Andrew Puzder as President Donald Trump's labor secretary.

The 2012 GOP presidential nominee said on social media that Puzder "knows how hard Americans work, and how much that work means to them and their families." He said the CEO of CKE Restaurants Inc. would help create jobs by rolling back burdensome regulations on businesses.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is leading the argument against Puzder, saying he would side with businesses over workers from atop the agency charged with enforcing workplace protections. She also said he would have potential conflicts of interest despite his plan to divest from CKE.

The Senate is poised to confirm President Donald Trump's pick for treasury secretary despite complaints by Democrats that the former banker failed to protect thousands of homeowners from unnecessary foreclosures.

Steven Mnuchin (mih-NOO'-chin) used to head OneWest Bank. He says he worked hard during the financial crisis to assist homeowners with refinancing so that they could remain in their homes.

Republicans say Mnuchin's long tenure in finance is an ample prerequisite for the Treasury job.

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts says Mnuchin is a Wall Street insider whose bank was "a foreclosure machine."

The Senate is scheduled to vote on Mnuchin Monday evening. The Senate is also scheduled to vote on the nomination of David Shulkin to head the Department of Veterans Affairs.</s>Treasury secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin testifies before the Senate Finance Committee last month in Washington, D.C.

Jim Watson / AFP - Getty Images</s>WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump’s Cabinet confirmations (all times EST):

The Senate has confirmed Steven Mnuchin as treasury secretary despite complaints by Democrats that the former banker ran a “foreclosure machine” when he headed OneWest Bank.

Republicans said Mnuchin’s long tenure in finance is an ample prerequisite for the Treasury job. Mnuchin is also a former top executive at Goldman Sachs.

Democrats complained that Mnuchin made much of his fortune by foreclosing on families during the financial crisis.

Mnuchin assembled a group to buy the failed IndyMac. He renamed it OneWest and turned it around, selling it for a profit in 2014.

Mnuchin has said he had worked hard during the financial crisis to assist homeowners with refinancing so they could remain in their homes.

Four Republicans on the Senate committee considering President Donald Trump’s nominee for labor secretary aren’t saying publicly if they will vote for him.

It would only take three Republicans to derail Andrew Puzder’s nomination in the full Senate if every Democrat votes against him.

The four senators — Susan Collins of Maine, Tim Scott of South Carolina, Johnny Isakson of Georgia and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — have said they’re waiting for Puzder to answer questions at Thursday’s confirmation hearing before they make up their minds.

Collins on Monday also became the first Republican to say publicly that she is evaluating abuse accusations leveled three decades ago by Puzder’s ex-wife. Lisa Fierstein has since recanted, most recently writing to senators last month that the fast food executive was never violent.

Mitt Romney is urging the Senate to confirm fast-food executive Andrew Puzder as President Donald Trump’s labor secretary.

The 2012 GOP presidential nominee said on social media that Puzder “knows how hard Americans work, and how much that work means to them and their families.” He said the CEO of CKE Restaurants Inc. would help create jobs by rolling back burdensome regulations on businesses.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is leading the argument against Puzder, saying he would side with businesses over workers from atop the agency charged with enforcing workplace protections. She also said he would have potential conflicts of interest despite his plan to divest from CKE.

The Senate is poised to confirm President Donald Trump’s pick for treasury secretary despite complaints by Democrats that the former banker failed to protect thousands of homeowners from unnecessary foreclosures.

Steven Mnuchin (mih-NOO’-chin) used to head OneWest Bank. He says he worked hard during the financial crisis to assist homeowners with refinancing so that they could remain in their homes.

Republicans say Mnuchin’s long tenure in finance is an ample prerequisite for the Treasury job.

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts says Mnuchin is a Wall Street insider whose bank was “a foreclosure machine.”

The Senate is scheduled to vote on Mnuchin Monday evening. The Senate is also scheduled to vote on the nomination of David Shulkin to head the Department of Veterans Affairs.</s>WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Senate voted to confirm former banker and Hollywood financier Steven Mnuchin as Treasury secretary on Monday, installing the Trump administration's point-man on tax reform, financial de-regulation and economic diplomacy efforts.

The Senate voted 53-47 to confirm the Goldman Sachs veteran's nomination on a mostly party-line vote, with only one Democrat, Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, voting in favor.

Mnuchin was expected to be sworn into office on Monday night in a brief White House…</s>By The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The 53-47 roll call Monday by which the Senate confirmed Steven Mnuchin to be treasury secretary.

A “yes” vote is a vote to confirm or the nomination.

Voting yes were 1 Democrat and 52 Republicans.

Voting no were 45 Democrats, 0 Republicans and 2 independents.</s>By a vote of 53 to 47, the Senate on February 13 confirmed Steven Mnuchin as the 77th Treasury secretary of the United States. Mnuchin was expected to be sworn in to his position later in the evening.

Ahead of the vote, Mnuchin's critics cited concerns about foreclosure practices used by OneWest Bank, which Mnuchin ran from 2009 up until it was bought by CIT Group in 2015, and Mnuchin's earlier Wall Street background working for Goldman Sachs.</s>WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Monday to confirm former Goldman Sachs executive Steven Mnuchin as the next treasury secretary, the latest Cabinet member to be approved after a lengthy and at times contentious confirmation process.

The vote was 53-47, mostly along party lines, with Sen. Joe Manchin the lone Democrat voting yes.

Senators then began voting on Trump’s pick to run the Department of Veterans Affairs, David Shulkin, Monday evening.

Democrats were unable to block Mnuchin, as they are outnumbered by a largely unified bloc of Republicans, 52-48.

“Mr. Mnuchin has 30 years of experience working in a variety of capacities in the financial sector,” said Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican. “He has experience managing large and complicated private-sector enterprises and in negotiating difficult compromises and making tough decisions — and being accountable for those decisions. Mr. Mnuchin is clearly qualified to serve as secretary of the United States Treasury.”

But Senate Democratic leaders still looked to score some points before Mnuchin’s vote. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Ron Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, hosted a briefing on Trump’s “pro-Wall Street agenda” shortly before the Mnuchin vote.

Schumer argued that Trump was breaking promises made in his populist pitch to voters by hiring Wall Street veterans, like Mnuchin, to oversee the very institutions he railed against on the trail.

“President Trump told Steve Mnuchin — a Wall Street insider with decades of experience in that board room he described — ‘you’re hired’ as my treasury secretary no less,” Schumer said Monday. “That’s a broken promise.”

The Mnuchin fight has lacked some of the last-minute theatrics that marked confirmation battles last week — including a string of protests against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and a surprising rebuke of Sen. Elizabeth Warren in the fight over Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Instead, all eyes are on Labor nominee Andrew Puzder, who will come up for a confirmation hearing Thursday, almost one week after revelations that he had hired an undocumented worker to do housework for him. That revelation has led Democrats to call for his removal as nominee, but top Republicans have stood firm behind Puzder. The main focus will be on rank-and-file Republicans, and whether they change their minds on him.

Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court, Judge Neil Gorsuch, continues his tour of Capitol Hill this week — with stops with Republican Sens. Todd Young of Indiana, Joni Ernst of Iowa and John Kennedy of Louisiana.</s>Trump's pick for treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was confirmed Monday evening after several attempts by Democrats to slow down the process.</s>WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - The US Senate on Monday (Feb 13) voted to confirm former Goldman Sachs banker Steven Mnuchin as Treasury secretary, installing the Trump administration's pointman on tax reform, financial deregulation and economic diplomacy efforts.

The Senate voted 53-47 in a largely party-line vote to approve the nomination. Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia was the only Democrat to vote in favour of Mr Mnuchin.</s>The Senate has confirmed Steven Mnuchin as treasury secretary despite complaints by Democrats that the former banker ran a "foreclosure machine" when he headed OneWest Bank.

Republicans said Mnuchin's long tenure in finance is an ample prerequisite for the Treasury job. Mnuchin is also a former top executive at Goldman Sachs .

Democrats complained that Mnuchin made much of his fortune by foreclosing on families during the financial crisis.

Mnuchin assembled a group to buy the failed IndyMac. He renamed it OneWest and turned it around, selling it for a profit in 2014.

Mnuchin has said he had worked hard during the financial crisis to assist homeowners with refinancing so they could remain in their homes.
The United States Senate, in a 53–47 vote, confirms Steven Mnuchin to be Treasury Secretary.