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Robert KennedyPresident Donald TrumpThe controversial draft rights of leadership of the Ministry of Health and Public Services are testify On Wednesday, in the Senate Group, this is essential for improving nominations.
Kennedy first testimony before the Senate Finance Committee, which will eventually treat him Nominated as HHS Secretary Go to the entire conference hall. In the Senate controlled by the Republican Party, Kennedy only objected to him and could only lose three votes.
He will also appear at the Senate’s Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pension Council at the etiquette hearing held on Thursday. If it is confirmed, Kennedy will accept $ 1.7 trillion agent Supervise vaccines and other drugs, scientific research, public health infrastructure, popular preparations, food and tobacco products, and government -funded medical care provided by millions of Americans.
The person in charge of the Food and Drug Administration, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute of Health and Medical Insurance and Medical Subsidies, and other federal health institutions, all of which report to the HHS secretary.
Kennedy, 71, is one of Trump’s more controversial cabinet nominations and faces criticism on both sides of the aisle. He is a well -known vaccine skepticist. He said that despite decades of research revealed this connection, they are still related to autism.
Some critics even believe that he advocates that the work against vaccines has paid his life and can prevent more Americans from recommending shooting when the vaccination rate decreases.
But Kennedy’s opening in front of the group claimed that he was an anti -vaccine or anti -industry.
Kennedy said: “I am not; I support safety.” “I have worked for many years to improve people’s understanding of fish and toxic chemicals of fish, but this has not made me anti -fish. All my children. They have accepted vaccination, I believe that vaccines play a vital role in medical care. “
When Kennedy denied that he was an anti -vaccine, a protesters in the hearing room shouted and accused him of lying. It caused applause and briefly interrupted his opening speech.
The members of the committee Ron Wyden, D-ORE. Ask Kennedy’s comment on his vaccine, he interrupted the hearing again. Mike Crapo, President of the Commission, R-Idaho, threatened, saying that more protesters destroyed the hearing.
Kennedy is also the founder of the hygiene defense of non -profit children. This is the most abundant anti -vaccine organization in the United States Government moral agreement Last week, Kennedy said that as of December, he stopped serving as the chairman or chief legal adviser of the organization.
In the possible preview of the Hearing of the Senate Finance Committee, last week’s senator Elizabeth Warren issued a letter to pressure to Kennedy Answer 175 questions Regarding the vaccine, the “Acts for the Medical Act”, the pricing of drugs, his views on the constant changes in reproductive rights, and suggestions on firing FDA and NIH workers.
This week’s hearing will also glimpse how Kennedy plans to make him widely, the so -called “re -healthy American” platform when it is recognized as the top US health officials. The platform believes that the corruption alliances of drugs and food companies and the federal health institutions that regulate them are making Americans unhealthy. Kennedy has been arguing for a long time that HHS supervision agencies need to reform or repair.
Kennedy’s supporters said that he stood around some food, such as emphasizing the risks of grain additives and super -processing products, which has attracted widespread attraction among Republican and some Democrats.
But Kennedy said on Wednesday that he was not “the enemy of food producers”, and he pointed out that the American farm was “the cornerstone of our culture and national security.”
The little cousin Caroline Kennedy and former President Kennedy’s daughter wrote a letter to the senators on Tuesday to call her cousin “predator” and urge them not to confirm him. Essence
