Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a candidate for President Trump’s Secretary of Health and Welfare, was in Capitol Hill in early January to meet the Senator.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is likely to immediately take the helm as a secretary of the Ministry of Health and Welfare. The Senate Finance Committee voted along the party line between the ages of 14-13, and reported his nomination to the fully Senate.
Voting to confirm him will happen in the next few days or probably next week.
President Trump has succeeded in setting up most of his favorite cabanet picks, despite the majority of Congress. Kennedy was one of his most controversial candidates.
Kennedy is a very rare choice to operate national health agencies, including Medicare, Food and Pharmaceutical Bureau, and National Health Institute. Kennedy, a famous democratic family, spent the years as an environmental advocate before pivoting anti -vaccine work. The job has built his reputation and luck.
R.-LA, Senator Bill Cassidi. Was an important vote for Kennedy. Docticidi, a doctor, spoke in a hearing last week about his experience with patients who are not vaccinated and suffered from their lifelong health. He indicated that he was “struggling” on Thursday, but eventually voted for Kennedy’s favor.
Louisiana Republican Republican Senator Bill Cassidi, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, supported Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday. Cassidi, a doctor, asked Kennedy’s harsh questions about his conspiracy theory about last week’s vaccine.
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On Tuesday social mediaCassidi posted: “I had a very intense conversation with Bobby and White House on the weekend and this morning. I would like to thank VPJD. [Vance] Specifically, for his honest lawyer, “he wrote. After receiving a commitment from the Trump administration, he added that he had decided to make an opportunity to advance to Kennedy’s advantageous voting and “healthy foods and issues that agree like an American agenda.”
Overcome the opposition from many side
The Democratic Senator united against Kennedy. industry.
Since Trump announced Kennedy’s nomination, he has been facing a fierce opposition from the left. The advertising campaign from the left -handed advocate organization has targeted the Republican Senator, who targeted our care, and described Kennedy as an anti -vaccine extremist. He also faced the opposition from the right to support the past to support abortion access. Former Vice President Mike Pence Group is moving forward with the freedom in the United States. Thousands of doctors and scientists wrote letters opposed to his nomination. Immediately before he appeared in the Capitol Hill, his cousin Caroline Kennedy sent him a painful letter to the Senator, explained his grumpy, and called him a “predator.”
The Republican Senator was very friendly to Kennedy and his ideas at last week’s hearing, including those who were eager to abortion right. Also, as Kennedy called them, it was “Mahamama” who supported him, and he appeared powerfully in the confirmation hearing. Maha’s name refers to Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” slogan.
As Casidi explained in the hearing of Thursday’s assistance (Health, Education, Labor, Pension) Committee: “I have been blown away by the people who are really following you and trust you more. There are people who trust their doctors.
Sudden alliance with Trump
Kennedy finished his own presidential bidding in August and threw his support behind Trump. In exchange, Trump agreed to let Kennedy execute his vision, saying, “I’m crazy about health.”
At his confirmation hearing, Kennedy frequently stated “his generation” (born in 1954. “
He often referred to data to support his debate, but when he faced data on vaccine safety and effectiveness, Kennedy said he was unfamiliar with it. He said he would change his position if he saw the data he was convinced of, when he was a professional safety. Cassidi replied that he was skeptical that Kennedy was really changing as a 71 -year -old man.
Kennedy has been frequently called a conspiracy theory. He was a label that he denied in the hearing, but doubled the claims that Wi-Fi caused cancer and AIDS had a different illness from the west side. Especially at the moment I was nervous, I came when Kennedy suggested that the black Americans should have another vaccine journey.
One of the issues that occurred during the confirmation process was his contradictory of financial interests. As a person who appealed for vaccine makers and made property, he was able to make a financial profit from continuous litigation while in charge of the federal agencies that regulate those drug manufacturers. Kennedy wrote in a subsequent application that he would transfer his profits to his son. He also told members that he understood how the health institution has been working for many years and has worked.
