RFK Jr will admit that his children are vaccinated in opening remarks at Congress hearing
RFK Jr will admit that his children are vaccinated in opening remarks at Congress hearing
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Robert F. Kennedy will declare that vaccines play a ‘critical role’ in healthcare at the Senate confirmation hearings. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will admit his children are vaccinated as he stresses he is not “anti-vaccine” when he speaks at the Senate confirmation hearings as he looks to be approved as the Trump administration’s health secretary.
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Kennedy is seeking control over a $1.7 trillion budget and the 90,000 employees afforded to the nation’s top health official, which controls over 18 important agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration.
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The 71-year-old has become a face of the vaccine-sceptic movement in recent years. Democratic minority leader Chuck Schumer said on the Senate floor Tuesday that there has never been a health secretary nominee “more dangerous” than Kennedy. Caroline Kennedy called RFK Jr a “dangerous” vaccine-sceptic whose “crusade against vaccination” is not reflective of most Americans.
For years, Kennedy has served in senior positions in Children's Health Defense, a nonprofit organization he founded which has advocated against vaccines and sued the federal government multiple times - including over the authorization of the COVID vaccine for children.
But Kennedy is expected to insist that he won’t “take away anybody’s vaccines.”. "I want to make sure the Committee is clear about a few things. News reports have claimed that I am anti-vaccine or anti-industry. Well, I am neither; I am pro-safety," he is expected to tell the Senate floor.
