Last statements attributed to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. -In connection with the security vaccine, they focused on Wednesday during his certificate hearing to become a major health official in the United States.
In the sometimes heated exchanges, Kennedy denied that he was anti-spiteable. But Kennedy, who pointed out that his children were vaccinated, admitted that he asked “unpleasant questions” about vaccination.
“I believe vaccines play a critical role in health care,” Kennedy told Senate Finance in Washington, DC
This attracted a quick return from Senator Ron Wyden, who pointed out that the candidate for health secretaries had previously claimed that there was a “safe” vaccine. The Oregon Democrat also quoted Kennedy’s books, who say parents were “seduced” on measles vaccine, and measles are not a particularly deadly illness in the characterization of the candidate.
“You spent years pushing conflicting vaccine stories,” Wyden said.
In an interview with Reuters in March, when he was still running for president, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He said that Americans who want a vaccine for themselves or their children will continue to have access to them if they were elected. But he also brought suspicion of the efficiency of measles vaccine.
Kennedy will go to the Health, Education, Work and Pensions of Senate on Thursday.
If approved as a health care secretary and human services, Kennedy will control the US agency of $ 1.7 billion, which oversees the inspection of food and hospital inspection, hundreds of health clinics, vaccine recommendations and health insurance for approximately half of the country.
It is not clear whether Kennedy will undergo a certificate process. President Donald Trump was forced to withdraw the nomination of Matt Gaetz as the Attorney General for opposition on Capitol Hill. The Minister of Defense Pete Hegsetth is now at work, after the Senate has approved him at the smallest possible Marz last week.
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Colorada Senator Michael Bennet moved to the ground similar to what Wyden covered, emphasizing the occasions in which Kennedy floated vaccine theories and diseases that were designed.
Kennedy admitted that he “probably said” when Bennet asked if he once claimed that Lyme’s disease was probably a military-instance bioepone.
The position is “too important for the games you play,” Bennet said. “I hope for theirs [Republican] Colleagues will tell the president: “Of the 330 million Americans, we can better than this.”
In the past, Kennedy led a non -profit organization that sued the Government for its authorization of the vaccine. He said that “there is no vaccine that is safe and effective.”
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Kennedy is a member of a well -known democratic political family, and his father served in the presidential administration of his uncle as a state prosecutor before reducing his own presidential campaign in 1968.
Kennedy, 70, persecuted his own presidential offer in the last election cycle, as independent. He suspended his campaign and filed with Trump in August.
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Kennedy has been a choice all his life, but on Wednesday he said he agreed with Trump that “every abortion is a tragedy.”
The Republicans did not vigorously challenge Kennedy’s past views during the first 90 minutes of hearing, focusing on the diet and various criticisms of Joe Biden’s health policies.
James Lanfkord of Oklahoma and Steve Daines of Montana, with their time, reflected concern among some conservative legislators about Kennedy to submit reproductive rights as a health care secretary.
The Department of Health and Human Services may affect the approach of abortion and reproductive health in many ways, including millions of dollars in grants sent to the planned parenting and regulations around abortion pills. According to Biden’s administration, the agency also said hospitals needed for emergency abortions for pregnant women in medical trouble.
In the midst of the Supreme Court judgment in 2022, which served to limit access to the abortion in the United States, The discussion was reinforced due to an approach to Miferistone, a drug that has more than one use, but is used as part of a drug abortion regimen. About 63 percent of all famous abortions in the USA in 2023, where it was categorized as abortions with medication, according to a report last week from the Guttmacher Institute, a group of advocate of abortion rights. This represented about 63 percent of all estimated abortions.
Daines expressed concern about the safety of the drug for women, although there are competitive views on the issue.
“President Trump asked me to study the safety of Mifepriston,” Kennedy said. “He has not yet taken an attitude about how to regulate it. Whatever he does, I will implement these policies.”
Kennedy has been a choice all his life, but on Wednesday he said he agreed with Trump that “every abortion is a tragedy.”
This statement is the mentioned Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Mastro from Nevada, who expressed concern that he would be a “rubber seal” for Trump’s personal views.
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Health secretary and agency also played a role in the last decades in solving global health problems.
Trump signed an executive command last week to get now out of his relationship with the World Health Organization, mainly for what he cited as a wrong resolution of Pandemia Coid-19. The US are by far the biggest financial support of WHO, contributing about 18 percent of their total financing.
Those who worked at the World Health Organization expected the worst – but the executive order of US President Donald Trump was still stuck. Dr. Prabhat JHA, a professor of global health from the University of Toronto, describes the financial impact of the US by leaving WHO and what it means for Canada and other countries contributing to the organization.
Kennedy also took a controversial view that local self -government should refrain from adding fluorine to their drinking water. CDC said small amounts of fluoride added in drinking water prevent cavities and teeth decay.
The area where Kennedy could find common ground with democratic senators, refers to food and access regulations and access to healthier foods. Kennedy said he supports Medicare and Medicaid by helping people pay healthier food and membership in the gym, which Democrats lobbied. He also called for a ban on some ingredients used in food, such as colors and additives.
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Kennedy was open to “skeletons in his closet” from last year. The text apologized to the former nanny who accused him of knocking her in the 1990s.
Kennedy described himself on Wednesday as a former, 14-year heroin addict who regularly attends recovery meetings. He said that improvement of Americans’ recovery opportunities in the midst of the long -standing crisis of Opioida is a priority.
