WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. rattled off statistics about continual illness, sparred with Democratic senators, backtracked on his prior help for abortion, and accused senators of twisting his previous remarks throughout a three-and-a-half-hour affirmation listening to earlier than the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday.
Senators lined a mind-boggling vary of points as they grilled RFK Jr., President Trump’s decide to steer the Division of Well being and Human Providers. Through the high-profile listening to, RFK Jr. supplied some concrete concepts to control meals and diet applications, however didn’t provide particulars about his plans to vary how the well being care system works in the US.
RFK Jr. readily supplied guarantees to keep up entry to vaccines, help international well being support applications, and retain HHS staff he considered as doing their jobs, in an try to reassure skeptical senators. He framed his previous criticisms of vaccines as noble efforts to assault highly effective pursuits.
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