Earlier statements assigned to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. On Wednesday, the safety of vaccines was during his interrogation confirming to become the best health official in the United States.
In the time of heated exchanges, Kennedy denied that he was an anti-partition. But Kennedy, who pointed out that his children were vaccinated, admitted that he asked “uncomfortable questions” about vaccinations.
“I think that vaccines play a key role in healthcare,” said Kennedy Financial Commission in Washington
This attracted the quick rejection of Senator Ron Odmen, who indicated that the nominee for the Secretary for Health had previously claimed that there was no “safe” vaccine. The Democrat in Oregon also quoted from Kennedy's books, which say that the parents were “misled” on the Odra vaccine, and Odra is not a particularly deadly disease in the characteristics of the nominee.
“You spent years, pressing contradictory stories about vaccines,” said the public.
In an interview with Reuters in March, when he still ran for president, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He said that Americans who want vaccines for themselves or their children would still have access to them if he were elected. But he also undermined the effectiveness of the opposite vaccine.
Kennedy will pass on Thursday before the Health, Education, Work and Work Committee of the Senate.
If he is approved as the Secretary for Health and Social Welfare, Kennedy controls $ 1.7 trillion of the American Agency, which supervises food and hospital inspections, hundreds of health clinics, vaccine recommendations and health insurance for about half of the country.
It is not clear whether Kennedy will undergo the confirmation process. President Donald Trump was forced to draw Matt Gaetz's nomination for the Prosecutor General due to opposition to the Capitol. Defense Secretary Pete HegeSeth is now at work because he was approved by the Senate on the smallest possible margin last week.
“We can do better than that”
Senator Colorado Michael Bennet went to earth similar to the one covered by exhalation, indicating the opportunities in which Kennedy flowed theories of vaccines and diseases.
Kennedy admitted that “he probably said” when Bennet asked if he once claimed that the Lorelictic disease was probably an office from military engineering.
The position is “too important for the game you play,” said Bennet. “I hope that my (Republican) colleagues will tell the president:” We can do better from 330 million Americans than that. “
In the past, Kennedy managed a non -profit organization that sued the government for his vaccine permits. He said that “there is no vaccine that is safe and effective.”
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Kennedy is a member of the famous democratic political family, his father served in the presidential administration of his uncle as the prosecutor general before his own presidential campaign by the killer in 1968.
70 -year -old Kennedy implemented his own presidential offer in the previous election cycle as independent. In August he suspended his campaign and allied with Trump.
Pills inflicted by abortion
Kennedy was able to choose all his life, but said on Wednesday that he agreed with Trump that “every abortion is a tragedy.”
In the first 90 minutes of interrogation, Republicans do not trigger Kennedy's previous views, focusing on nutrition and various critics of Joe Biden's health policy.
James Lanfkord from Oklahoma and Steve Daines from Montana, with allocated time, reflected the care of some conservative legislators about how Kennedy would deal with reproductive rights as a health secretary.
The Department of Health and Social Welfare can affect abortion and access to reproductive health in many ways, including millions of dollars in subsidies, which it sends to planned parenting and regulations regarding abortion tablets. According to Biden administration, the agency also said that hospitals were obliged to provide emergency abortions for pregnant women in medical danger.
As a result of the Supreme Court's decision in 2022, which served to limit access to abortion in the USA, The debate intensified access to Mifepriston, a drug that has more than one use, but is used as part of the drug abortion scheme. According to the report from last week, about 63 percent of all known abortions in the US in 2023 classified as drug abortions, last week from the Guttmacher Institute. This accounted for about 63 percent of all estimated abortions,
Daines expressed concerns about the safety of the drug for women, although they have competitive views on this subject.
“President Trump asked me to study the safety of Mifepristone,” said Kennedy. “He has not decided to regulate him yet. Whatever he does, I will implement these rules. “
Kennedy was able to choose all his life, but said on Wednesday that he agreed with Trump that “every abortion is a tragedy.”
This statement was canceled by the democratic senator Catherine Cortez Mastro of Nevada, who expressed concern that he would be a “stamp” for Trump's personal views.
Recovery of addiction, nutrition has been found priorities
The Secretary of Health and the Agency have also played a role in recent decades in solving global health problems.
Trump signed an executive ordinance last week to pull the US out of his relations with the World Health Organization, mainly for what he cited as the wrong Covid-19 pandemic. The United States is by far the largest financial supporter of WHO, contributing to about 18 percent of its overall financing.
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Kennedy also took a controversial position that local governments should refrain from adding fluoride to drinking water. CDC said that small amounts of fluoride added in drinking water prevent dental defects and tooth decay.
The area where Kennedy could find a common plane with democratic senators concerns food regulations and access to healthier food. Kennedy said that he supported Medicare and Medicaid, helping people pay for healthier food products and membership in the gym, and the idea of democrats also lobbyed. He also called on the ban on some foods used in food, such as dyes and additives.
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Kennedy was open about “skeletons in his wardrobe” in recent years. He passed, by SMS to the former babysitter, who accused him of grinding her in the 1990s.
Kennedy described himself on Wednesday as a former 14-year-old heroin, who regularly participates in recovery meetings. He said that improving the recovery option of Americans among the long -term opioid crisis is a priority.