US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified Thursday in what might have been the most combative congressional hearing of the year.
Kennedy appeared in entrance of the Senate Finance Committee and answered questions on a variety of topics, together with vaccines, latest staffing adjustments and rising requires him to resign. He usually fired again at lawmakers throughout his testimony, which was praised by the White House. Some of the pointed questioning got here from Republicans who confirmed Kennedy.
Kennedy’s testimony comes amid a rising storm engulfing his division, together with the recent firing of Dr. Susan Monarez, the director on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who had been confirmed lower than a month earlier. Kennedy has additionally canceled his department’s funding for future mRNA vaccine developments.
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