Robert F. received. Kennedy Junior, President of President Trump to lead the sprawling federal bureaucracy responsible for health care of millions of Americans, supported the Main Senate Committee on Tuesday despite its history in depriving science of vaccine support and supporting specific medical conspiracy theories.
The Senator, the Republican Party, Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana doctor, who struggled loudly with Kennedy’s support, eventually obtained in line with his party in the face of fierce pressure from his Republican colleagues to support the candidate, including the main challenge threats in 2026.
Kennedy’s nomination advanced forward by voting the party line from 14 to 13 in the Senate Finance Committee.
All attention was on Cassidy, a member of the committee who also chaired the Senate Committee, another Kennedy told on Thursday that he was “struggling with your candidacy” because of Kennedy’s previous comments that question the safety of vaccines and refused to accept the flag that indicates that childhood cleansing does not cause autism.
Trump raised the issue of autism shortly before the session started.
“20 years ago, autism in children was 1 in 10,000. Now it is one in 34. Wow! Something really wrong. We need Bobby !!! Thank you! DJT”, he wrote on the social media platform.
Cassidy announced his intention to support Kennedy’s nomination on social media before the committee voted.
“I have been very intense conversations with Bobby and the White House during the weekend until this morning,” Cassidy Books on x. “With the serious obligations I received from the administration and the opportunity to make progress in the issues we agree on, such as healthy foods and a pro -America’s business schedule, I will vote yes.”
Cassidy did not speak during the session, but another Republican, Senator Tom Telese of North Carolina, who said he was looking forward to Kennedy’s vision facing popular issues, such as curbing in high drug prices and enhancing food safety. But Tiles warned that he would monitor Kennedy with vaccines.
“The only way that Bobby Kennedy will get on the transit is if he already takes a position against the integrity of the installed vaccines,” said Teleles. “This will be a problem for me.”
Kennedy did not attend a session on Tuesday. The Senate has no date to vote on its candidacy, but it may happen next week.
Kennedy, 71, is the former son of the United States. General Robert Kennedy and my nephew former President Kennedy. A resident of Brentwood, married to actor Sherrill Heinz, was a democrat “Sociopath.”
After winning the November elections, Trump Kennedy nominated his secretary and humanitarian services, and leading a budget with a budget of $ 1.8 billion and 90,000 employees. Among the agencies and programs that fall under the department’s jurisdiction are the Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institutes of Health as well as Medicaid and Medicare.
Public health groups and medical officials attacked the possibility of a self -prescribed position “Children’s poster for the Anti -fax movement” Responsible for the leading health and medical research agencies in the country.
He also faced his nomination and nomination, noticeable opposition from many of his relatives, and his cousin, Caroline Kennedy, was recently, who sent members of the Senate a big speech on the eve of his first nomination session last week – the first time that he publicly spoke about his policy.
Caroline Kennedy, the only one who is alive, worked as an ambassador in two democratic administrations. In the letter, which Washington Post was first reported, she warned that her cousin was a “predator” whose opinions about vaccines were not eligible, and that he would continue to benefit from a lawsuit against the Merck pharmaceutical company about a vaccine that prevents cervical cancer.
“He is ready to enrich himself by depriving him from reaching a vaccine that can prevent almost all forms of cervical cancer, which was safely given to millions of boys and girls,” wrote Caroline Kennedy.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (Majas) alluded to these lawsuits on Tuesday when she reiterated her concerns about Kennedy’s potential financial conflict. She said that the concessions he made to address such fears – such as agreeing to hand over his financial interest in some lawsuits against vaccine makers for his son – did not go far.
“He discovered how to earn money from his positions to combat fax,” Warren said. “In a position in which he can influence the results of the things that the HHS minister does, yet he refuses to say that he will delay until one day he takes advantage of counter -fax claims at the moment he leaves.”
Senator Rafael Warrnok, a democratic colleague from Georgia, has expressed particular concern about the fate of the Atlanta centers to combat and prevent diseases.
“I simply do not trust him to oversee the center of diseases.” Warrenuk said. “He is not qualified, and I dare to say everyone here knows that.”
In two days of the Senate’s listening sessions last week, Kennedy, who pledged to “made America in good health again”, faced aggressive questions about his previous vocal suspicions in vaccines, embrace the medical claims that were exposed, and financial conflict in interests and abandoning issues such as abortion rights.
Kennedy, a well -known environmental lawyer, frams the attacks against him as a result of his willingness to ask difficult questions on strong interests such as pharmaceutical companies.
He said he sought to highlight health care issues, as there is a wide agreement of both parties, such as nutrition and drug use.
But Kennedy often contradicts his previous positions, saying that he was supporting the vaccine despite a well -documented date to question his safety, including work for several years as president to defend children’s health, a non -profit organization that claims that childhood vaccines falsely cause autism. During the answer to the questions about the health programs he will lead if it is confirmed.
Dr. Joseph MaleThe Chairman of the Independent Medical Alliance praised the committee’s support for Kennedy and said that he is looking forward to the full Senate vote next week.
Farun said, Kennedy vaccine and Covid-19 The critic, in a statement.
The organization said that IMA Action had contacted more than 100,000 Kennedy supporters in Louisiana during the weekend and helped them make their views known to Kasidi.