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The Robert F Kennedy JR vaccine skeptic is on its way to confirm as the main US health official after the key committee for the Senate voted for a party that will approve his nomination.
The Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday voted 14 to 13 in favor of Kennedy’s certificate for running the Ministry of Health and Human Services, and all Republicans support Kennedy and all the Democrats who vote against. His nomination will go to a vote in the complete Senate later this week.
Republika Senator Bill Cassidy, a former doctor who chaired the Senate Health Committee, Kennedy’s allies considered the ally as a possible rebel in a tight vote, but decided to have the candidate Glad.
Cassidy wrote on the Social Media Platform before voting that he had held “very intense conversations” with Kennedy and the White House, including Vice -President JD Vance, during voting.
“With the serious obligations I received from the administration and the opportunity to progress in the questions we agree on, such as healthy food and the pro -American program, I will vote yes,” Cassidy said.
Since Cassidy fell into the turn behind Kennedy, it is now likely that his confirmation will adopt a complete voice of the Senate, even if three other Republican senators are rebel. Possible disagreements include Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, who voted against the Peteo Hegseth nomination for the Minister of Defense.
Kennedy’s nomination for the run of a widespread health department, which has a budget of 1.9 DOTM and oversees 13 departments and agencies, including the Drug Regulator in the Food and Medicines Administration, has encouraged the concern of public health and insiders’ pharmaceutical industry officers because of its skepticism of vaccines and content views on numerous health problems.
During the two days of the Committee, Kennedy’s Senators suddenly raised about their record of the Coid-19 and MMR and MMR vaccine tests, and his financial share of the Merckbuster Gardasil Jab Blockbuster Blockbuster Safety Safety Safety Safety Safety Safety Complement. After that, Kennedy promised to give up his stake in any revenue from the case.
Kennedy told the senators last week that “he is not anti-split or anti-industrial,” but instead was “secure”. When asked about his skepticism on the MMR vaccine – he repeated the fortified claim that the murder was associated with autism – Kennedy said, “I just want to follow science, and if science says I’m wrong in what I’ve said in the past, as I said, I’ll apologize publicly. “
At the Health Care Senate hearing, Cassidy said to Kennedy: “I am struggling with your nomination,” stating his failure to withdraw his previous criticism on vaccines.
He asked: “Did a 70-year-old man, a 71-year-old man who has spent decades criticizing vaccines and who has financially invested in finding guilt with vaccines-if he can change his views and access now that he will have the most important position that affects politics vaccines in the United States? ”
