Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., defended her support for several of President Donald Trump’s nominees and for the Republican spending bill at a Politico event on Wednesday.

Hassan voted for nine of Trump’s 15 Cabinet picks, more than any other Democrat, and recently voted to confirm Marty Makary as head of the Food and Drug Administration.

“One of the things we have learned over the last couple of months is that some of the people who are qualified or acting in good faith are either just doing what the administration says or has no voice in the administration, and that is certainly influencing the way I look at these nominees,” Hassan said at Politico’s Health Care Summit.

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