Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faces heat from GOP senators over vaccine stance

Democrats in the Senate found unlimited allies in the Republican Senate during a fiery hearing, where the Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services (HHS) was interrogated Robert F. Kennedy Junior for his position on vaccines.

Kennedy was described before the Senate Financial Committee on Thursday as a discussion on the agenda of health care for President Donald Trump, but it quickly turned into a tongue of legislators, who accused the lying secretary on the committee on how to run HHS and centers to control diseases and prevent them (CDC).

While it was expected that a hail of hot exchanges between Kennedy and Democrats was a heat of Republican Senate in the committee, including a pair of doctors who turned into legislators who have emerged.

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“I support the vaccines. I am a doctor. The vaccines are working,” said the majority of the Senate John Parasu, R and Yoo. “Kennedy Minister, in your confirmation sessions, has promised to support the highest standards of vaccines. Since then, I have become very concerned.”

“The audience has witnessed the outbreak of measles, and the leadership of the National Institutes of Health, which doubts the use of the Rana Al -Mersal vaccines, is the director of the Center for Disease Control and its prevention recently.” “The Americans do not know who depends on it.”

When asked what he would do to ensure that the guidelines of the vaccine were clear, Kennedy said: “We will explain the matter, based on the first and trustworthy for the first time in history.”

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Senator John Paraso, R and Yoo, speaks to correspondents in Capitol Hill on June 24, 2025, in Washington. (Tasso Catopodes)

The session came in the aftermath of a week of disturbances at the Center for Disease Control, as Kennedy Susan Monarerez, director of the former diseases control center, launched the resignation of many senior officials from the agency. Before that, the Secretary cleaned the Federal Government vaccine recommendation committee and chose his members to serve, and also moved to cancel $ 500 million in flexible vaccine contracts.

Senator Bill Cassidy runs, R. La. , As Chairman of the Senate Health Committee and was the decisive vote to confirm Kennedy. He said that Kennedy’s actions on vaccines seemed to contradict his support for the speed of warp in the Trump operation, a comprehensive executive program by the Trump administration at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic that started producing vaccines.

He pointed out that both Trump and Kennedy pledged “radical transparency” when it came to the schedule of health care work in the administration, but they responded that the Secretary’s step to put new members in the advisory committee for immunization practices seems to be conflicting in interests.

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Senator Roger Marshall, a Republican of Kansas, speaks during a press conference at the American Capitol Building in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2021. (Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“I am worried, because many of those whom I nominated for [Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices] The Council … He received revenues as expert witnesses as prosecutors for lawyers who are paid for vaccine makers, “Cassidy said:” If we put paid people as witnesses to people who are sustaining vaccines, then this seems to be a conflict of interests, so do you agree to that quickly? “

“No, I do not,” Kennedy said, on the pretext that although it might seem like a bias, he was not a conflict of interests.

Not every Republican doctor in the painting went after Kennedy. Senator Roger Marshall, R. Kan, has long been an ally of the Secretary and gave him a room to address the accusations that he was hostile to the book.

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Kennedy said: “I am hostile to the erasing like saying that I am anti -curtain,” Kennedy said. “I am a supporter of the media, but I understand that some medications harm people, some are risks, and some have benefits that outweigh these risks to some of the population, and this is true with vaccines.”

Marshall agreed that he was not “counter -fax”, and he included many vaccines that he thought were good but argued that transparency and vaccine approach under HHS and CDC was then.

Marshall said: “I don’t feel that the difference is sometimes that my friends across the corridor feel that there is one size that suits everyone, and that they should tell parents what they must do.” “What we fight for is is that we want to enable parents to make these decisions.”