RFK JR grilled Warren for drug money while taking $ 5 million from them
Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.He pressed Robert F. Kennedy younger to commit that he would not seek to profit from the drugs or lawsuits associated with them after working at Trump’s administration, if confirmed as a secretary of health and human services (HHS).
However, Massachusetts Democrats itself has come in Approximately $ 5 million from the health industry during her presidential offer in 2020.
“Will you commit that when you leave this job, you will not accept the compensation from a medicine company, a medical manufacturer, a hospital system or a health insurer for at least four years, including a lobbyist or board member?” Warren asked Kennedy during hearing before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday.
“I am happy to commit to it,” President Trump candidate as secretary HHS told her. “I don’t think none of them want to give me money.”
Warren continued, asking Kennedy to promise that he would not “take any compensation against any drug lawsuits, while you were a secretary and not even four years after that.”
“You will not go to work at the drug company after leaving HHS, but you and I know that there is another way to make money,” the senator told him.
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Kennedy pushed it to it, suggesting, “Ask me not to sue the drug company,” which he said he would not agree.
Despite seeking these beliefs from Trump’s candidate for HHS, Warren especially received about $ 5 million from the health sector and associated industries during her failed presidential offer.
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Healthcare professionals received $ 2,366,613, hospitals and nursing homes $ 1,600.888, $ 644,499 from various health industries and $ 625,580 from the industry of pharmaceutical products and health products, Opensecrets said.
Her office did not comment on Fox News Digital on time to publish.
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Warren is not the only senator that made a significant contribution from these industries. Senator Tim Kaine, D-Va., He received more than $ 200,000 during the 2024 election cycle, and Senator Patty Murray, D-Wash., Has taken over more than $ 360,000 in 2022. They are both members of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Work and Pensions.