The Senate voted Tuesday to confirm Wall Street veteran Frank Bisignano to head the Social Security Administration despite strong opposition from Democrats.
He was confirmed on a 53-47 vote.
The final confirmation vote came a day after the Senate advanced Bisignano, 50-45, on a procedural vote.
Bisignano’s nomination drew strong pushback from Democrats after Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency and other senior Trump administration officials called for slimming down the Social Security Administration’s 57,000-person workforce by 7,000 positions and shutting dozens of offices across the country.
The nominee denied at his Senate confirmation hearing in March that the Trump administration secretly intended to privatize the agency.
“I don’t see this institution as anything other than run for the benefit of the American public,” Bisignano told senators.
Bisignano, the CEO of Fiserv, a financial technology and payments firm, has ranked as one of the most highly paid corporate leaders in the country.
