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Recap: RFK grilled over vaccines, lead, job cuts, as protesters tackled at HHS hearing
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified on May 14 before the House Appropriations and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committees.
RFK Jr. Acknowledges Proposed NIH Cuts Will 'Hurt': Watch
Kennedy conceded that Trump's proposed cuts to NIH will "hurt" as he was being grilled by Democratic Senator Patty Murray.
Why the 1 senator who can rein in RFK Jr. isn’t calling him out
Bill Cassidy, the senator who secured Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s promise to protect vaccines, will question the health secretary ...
RFK Jr.'s HHS releases controversial report on gender-affirming care. Here's what it says.
In the review, unnamed authors determined there's a lack of evidence supporting certain medical interventions, breaking with ...
RFK Jr. Attacks Health Agency, Defends Cuts Before Congress
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to defend his decisions to cut thousands of staff and gut ...
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GOP embraces RFK Jr.’s MAHA at House hearing, but raises dissents from dental health to food dye reform
GOP lawmakers tested the limits of how far they could push Kennedy without appearing to undermine him or his MAHA movement.
Protesters, vaccines and budget cuts: 5 takeaways from RFK's testimony before Congress
In back-to-back Capitol Hill hearings, Kennedy touched on abortion access, vaccines, measles, research, mental health and opioids.
RFK Jr.’s new vaccine testing rule agitates industry, experts
When the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a new requirement for placebo testing on all new vaccines ...