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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s The candidate for the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), returns to Capitol Hill for a second day of the Senate Confirmation Audiences after the Democrats’ grill during a controversial first day of Wednesday.
Kennedy will ask questions on Thursday in front of the Senate Health Committee, Education, Work and Pensions.
On Wednesday, in front of the Senate Finance Committee, which will vote for Kennedy’s confirmation, there were many verb artificial fireworks on the controversial comments of the skeptical and environmental Croatian of the vaccine that presented the candidacy for the White House in 2024 before the end of it. Your candidacy and approval to Trump.
But Kennedy’s unequal action did not seem to hurt his confirmation, as no Republican in the group stated the opposition to his candidacy to address 18 powerful federal agencies that supervise the food and health of the country. These agencies include disease control and prevention centers, food and drug administration, national health institutes and Medicare and Medicaid service centers.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. It testifies during an audience of the Senate Finance Committee on his candidacy to be secretary of HHS on January 29, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP through Getty Images)
The Committee Democrats repeatedly pointed out the controversial opinions of the Kennedy vaccine, including their repeated claims in recent years Link the vaccines to autism, which has been neglected by scientific research.
They also highlighted the Kennedy service for years as President or Legal Minister in Defense of the Children’s Health, the non -profit organization he founded to defend against vaccines and sued the federal government on several occasions. , including — there is a challenge for the authorization of the Covid vaccine For children.
“Mr. Kennedy has adopted conspiracy, quacks and charlatans theories, especially when it comes to the safety and effectiveness of vaccines. He has made his life his life to sow doubts and discourage parents to make parents Vaccines to save the lives of his children, “Senator Ron Wyden from Oregon, the group’s highest Democrat, accused his initial statement.
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The senator also pointed out the past comments from the Kennedy vaccine in podcasts, including one in 2020 when he said he would “pay anything” to be able to go back in time and not to vaccinate his children.
“Do you lie to Congress today when you say you are pro-vacuna? Or have you stayed in all these podcasts?” Asked Wyden.
In promoting a heated exchange, Kennedy said that the statements he made to the podcasts have been “repeatedly disassociated”.
And he promised that he would do nothing to prevent the North -Americans from obtaining certain vaccines.
“I support the measles vaccine. I support the poliomyelitis vaccine. I will do nothing as HHS secretary, which hinders or does not recommend people taking anything,” said Kennedy.
Democratic Senator Michael Bennet, in Colorado, accused Kennedy of “making sales of half truths, with false statements.”
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And Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island, has known Kennedy for decades, going back to his days as students at the Faculty of Law and Fellow Fellows at Virginia University, told his friend: “Frankly, scares the people.”
Kennedy also launched several times near the beginning of the sight.
When Kennedy handed over his opening comments and said, “reports have stated that I am anti-vacuna or anti-industrial. I’m not either. I’m the pro-shouted security,” shouted. “
The Heckler was directed outside the Hearing Room CopAs it was a second manifesting minutes later.
And another protester was seen at the audience that he had a reading sign, “Save Lives vaccines, not RFK JR”.
A protester maintains a sign reading, “Save Lives vaccines”, such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Westing during its Senate Confirmation Hearing on January 29, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP through Getty Images)
The 71 -year -old Kennedy a Sion of the most stored political dynasty of the nation, launched a long -haul campaign for the Democratic Presidential Candidate against President Joe Biden in April 2023. But six months later he goes move on to an independent candidacy for the White House.
Kennedy returned to great headlines last August when he left his presidential candidacy and approved Trump. While Kennedy had long identified as a Democrat and repeatedly invoked his late father, former senator Robert F. Kennedy, and his deceased uncle, former President John F. Kennedy, who were killed in the 1960’s, Kennedy in recent years built relationships with far -right leaders due in part to their high -profile vaccine skepticism.
Trump announced shortly after the November election that he would name Kennedy his cabinet to run HHS.
Now President Donald Trump welcomes Robert F. Kennedy Jr. On stage at a campaign rally on October 23, 2024, in Duluth, Ga. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
In the two months of Trump’s announcement, not only Democrats have asked questions about Kennedy’s confirmation. Conservative Republicans called into question their comments in support of abortion rights.
“My belief is that we should leave the woman.
But since Trump approved, Kennedy has resorted to his position on abortion. And in an exchange Wednesday with the Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Kennedy said: “I agree with President Trump that every abortion is a tragedy.”
Independent Senator Bernie Sanders, from Vermont, a former candidate for the Democratic Presidency, argued that Kennedy made a “great turn in u” In abortion.
Kennedy also wondered about how to reformia Medicare and Medicaid, the massive government health programs using millions of seniors, disabled and low revenue.
“I do not have a wide proposal to dismantle the program,” Kennedy said about Medicaid.
He said that Trump had not asked him to cut the program, but “asked me to improve it.”
Kennedy whose opinions were taken out Great pharma And the food industry has also caused controversy, he has promised that “if it is confirmed, I will do everything in my power to return to the health of the North -Americans”.
Although Democrats may find common ground with the aim of Kennedy to change the focus of agencies, it would oversee the promotion of a healthy lifestyle, including the revision of dietary guidelines, which aimed at the goal Ultra processed foods and would come to the roots of chronic diseases, lamented Kennedy that they oppose him because he is Trump’s candidate.
“”They are now against me because everything that President Trump does, any decision he makes, must be forceful, derived, discredited, marginalized, vilified, “said Kennedy.
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With Republicans who control the Senate by a majority of 53-47, Kennedy can only lose the support of three GOP senators if Democrats join their confirmation. During Wednesday, there were no Republicans to oppose the candidacy.
Republican Senator Thom Tillis, from North Carolina, appeared in the attacks of Democrats in Kennedy asking -Met: “I had a quick question for you: Are you a conspiracy theorist?”
Kennedy replied that “it is a pejorative that applies me mainly to prevent them from asking me difficult questions for powerful interests.”
GOP Senator Steve Daines, from Montana, a chemical engineer, said that there were several Republican doctors in the Committee.
“We believe in science. I am also grateful that you do it,” said Daines.
Republican senator Bill Cassidy, Louisiana, a doctor who said he had a “frank conversation” with Kennedy about immunization when they met this month, did not ask about vaccines during the Committee. Instead, he kept his questions about Federal Health Programs, including Medicare.
Meanwhile, GOP Senator Ron Johnson, from Wisconsin, aimed at the Committee’s Democrats for what he stated that he was “hostility to the other side … I’m disappointed with this.”
After Wednesday, Democrats kept their criticism.
“I think you have seen today that he does not support any of his really crazy and conspiracious beliefs,” said Senator Chris Murphy to connecticut to journalists.
And Sen. John Fetterman From Pennsylvania, who is believed to be one of the few Democrats to support Kennedy’s confirmation, he said, “I don’t think it went well for him.”
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But GOP Senator Roger Marshall, of Kansas, who is on the Finance Committee, said the Democrats in the group and said, “I understand their worries about vaccines. I think Bobby put those worries in bed” .
And Republican Senator Jim Banks, from Indiana, told journalists that Kennedy “has done very well today. Hope tomorrow he will do very well.”
