The Senate on Thursday narrowly confirmed President Trump’s nominee to run NASA despite Democrats’ deep concerns about Jim Bridenstine’s lack of scientific qualifications to run the space agency, according to a report.

Bridenstine, a Republican congressman from Oklahoma, was confirmed in a squeaker — 50 Republicans voting in favor and 48 Democrats and two independents voting no, the New York Times reported.

Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) has been among the Democrats opposed to Bridenstine, a former Navy pilot, for his comments questioning climate change and because he would be the first elected official to run the agency.

“I think what’s not right for NASA is an administrator who is politically divisive and who is not prepared to be the last in line to make that fateful decision on ‘go’ or ‘no go’ for launch,” Nelson said in a speech to the Senate on Wednesday.

Bridenstine, in a June 2013 House speech, criticized the Obama administration for spending too much money on climate change and said the former president should apologize.

“Here’s what we absolutely know. We know that Oklahoma will have tornadoes when the cold jet stream meets the warm gulf air. And we also know that this president spends 30 times as much money on global warming research as he does on weather forecasting and warning,” he said in the speech. “For this gross misallocation, the people of Oklahoma are ready to accept the president’s apology, and I intend to submit legislation to fix this.”