Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and President Donald Trump's secretary candidates from the Ministry of Health and Welfare (HHS) were not “anti -vaccines” when he appeared for two consecutive days in Congress on Wednesday. I will emphasize. Senate confirmation hearing.
“I want to make sure that the committee is clarifying a few things. The news report claims that I am an anti -vaccine or anti -built -in. Well, I am not. Kennedy is the Senate Finance Committee member. It will be said in his opening statement in front of the meeting.
This statement was first shared with Fox News prior to the appearance by Kennedy. If confirmed, Kennedy will manage 18 powerful federal agencies, including the Disease Control Prevention Center, the Food Pharmaceutical Bureau, the National Institute of National Health, and the National Institute of Health. Medicare and Medicade Service Center.
And Kennedy will emphasize that he is not “the enemy of food producers”. American farms are the foundation of our culture and national security … I would like to cooperate with farmers and food producers to remove the burden regulations and release the American ingenuity. “
The Senate's health, education, labor, and a Thursday hearing in front of the pension committee (a courtesy in question only by the Senate Finance Committee to confirm Kennedy) is controversial for vaccines that controversial Kennedy's controversy. The view that is expected to be there, which includes his repeated claims that ties vaccines to autism, is revealed by scientific research.
Kennedy also served as a chairman or chief lawyer of a child's health defense, a non-profit organization that has repeatedly appealed to the federal government, including challenging the approval of the COVID-19 vaccine for children.
After Trump's November victory in the presidential election, Kennedy said, “I will not deprive who vaccine.”
And in the opening statement of his confirmation hearing, Kennedy says, “I believe that all my children are vaccinated and vaccine plays an important role in healthcare.”
But he said, “In my advocacy, I disturbed the current situation by asking unpleasant questions. Well, I do not apologize for it. There is a problem.
HHS is a large federal division, about 90,000, and an annual budget of about $ 1.7 trillion. Kennedy said he would like to change the focus of a healthy lifestyle that has gained some ultra -partic support and the root cause of chronic diseases.
Kennedy says that he has overhauled meal guidelines and aims to aim for super -treated foods, especially among other Initiative.
“The American farm is the foundation of our culture and national security,” Kennedy states in his opening statement. “I want to cooperate with farmers and food producers to remove the burden regulations and release the American ingenuity.”
He says, “The United States has a worse health than any other developed country, but we spend at least twice as much health care, and in some cases, triple.”
He said, “Thank you to President Trump for leaving me to fulfill his promise to make the United States healthy again.”
“If we do not have a very privileged thing, we will confirm that taxes are supporting healthy foods. We will scrutinize the food supply chemical additives. We are, we are. We will remove the conflict of our institution, and we will be responsible for the President, Congress, and the trendy of science -led HS. Kennedy will return the nation to health. “
71 -year -old Kennedy is the most renowned political dynasty, a long -standing environmental activist and a Crusade, a crusader, and started a long shot campaign for the Democratic Party President to President Biden at that time. I did. He switched to an independent run for the White House.
Kennedy depressed the president's bid last August and made a big headline again when he supported Trump. Kennedy has been identified as a Democratic Party for a long time, and has repeatedly called out and called former President John F. Kennedy, formerly Senator Robert F. Kennedy and his deceased uncle, but both were assassinated in the 1960s. However, in recent years, Kennedy has built a relationship. A far -right leader who is partly due to his famous vaccine skepticism.
Immediately after the November election, Trump announced that it would nominate Kennedy to the Cabinet to operate HHS.
The opposition to Kennedy's nomination is intense, and the defenders are conducting an advertising campaign, urging the Senator to vote for his confirmation.
Kennedy said in his opening statement, “Thank you for my wife, Sheryl here today, and all members of my big family are very generous. We are always families who are dedicated to public services and are looking forward to continuing their heritage. “
However, many members of the Kennedy family were very loud in opposition to his main challenge against Biden and his independent White House running.
On the night before his confirmation hearing, his famous caroline Kennedy sent a letter to a member of the Senator on Tuesday and accused Kennedy as “dipping the despair between parents and sick children.” The action was “sacrificed life.” ”
She seemed to mention the connection with Kennedy with the occurrence of measles in 2019 on the Pacific Pacific Islands of Samoa, where 83 people died.
In the voices of people opposed to Kennedy, the Josh Green government in Hawaii traveled to Samoa to treat tens of thousands of individuals, such as vaccination. I am a doctor in the treatment room.
“Our people deserve the secretary of health and welfare that commites to defend science, support vaccines, and reduce costs while protecting access to healthcare,” says the governor. I mentioned. “Mr., Kennedy's lack of experience has serious concerns about the future of important programs such as Medicare and Medicade.”
It is not only the Democratic Party who has a problem with Kennedy.
Social conservative Republican members, which aim to reduce the right of abortion, have problems with past comments that support the right of abortion.
The night before the confirmation of the confirmation, the Public Advoca Group in the United States, whose former Vice President Mike Pence moves forward, has launched a modest advertising campaign that opposes Kennedy based on his views.
“We need leadership to protect life and protect the most vulnerable. It's not an extreme policy that impairs our value,” the group wrote in social media posts.
Kennedy met a Senator again on Tuesday the night before his confirmation, but did not scream from a reporter.
However, Veteran Trump's civil servant Katie Miller told Fox News Digital for “preparation and excitement” for Kennedy's hearing.
