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Robert F. Kennedy Junior, who is skeptical of vaccine, is confirmed as the best health official in the United States after the Senate Self -Likes voted to agree to his candidacy.
The Senate Financial Committee voted on Tuesday from 14 to 13 in favor of its confirmation of the Department of the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services, with the support of all Republicans Kennedy And all Democrats vote against. His candidacy will go to a full Senate vote later this week.
The Kennedy Allied, Republican Senator Bill Cassidy, the former doctor who heads the Senate Health Committee, was seen as a possible rebel in the narrow vote, but he chose to give the nudity candidate.
Cassidy wrote on the social media platform X before voting that he had “very intense conversations” with Kennedy and the White House, including with Vice President JD Vance, in the period before voting.
“With the serious obligations I received from the administration and the opportunity to make progress in the issues we agree on, such as healthy foods and a pro -America's business schedule, I will vote yes,” Cassidy said.
With the fall of Cassidi, wavy behind Kennedy, it is now possible that his confirmation of the full vote in the Senate, even if three other Republican Senate members are rebellious. Among the potential dissidents Mitch McConneel, Susan Collins and Lza Morkovsky, who voted against the nomination of Higseth Beit as defense minister.
Kennedy's nomination to run the sprawling Department of HealthThe budget of $ 1.9 trillion, and supervises 13 divisions and agencies, including the Food and Drug Administration organizer, pushed to anxiety from public health officials and familiar with the pharmaceutical industry because of his doubts about vaccines and controversial views of a number of health problems.
Over two days of the committee sessions last week, Senators Yoshwion Kennedy was about his scaling record of antiquities Covid-19 and MMR vaccinesAnd his financial share in a lawsuit against the safety of vaccine against Merck from Gardasil Jab. He later promised to abandon his share in any revenue from the case.
Kennedy told Senators last week that he was “not hostile to writing or fighting industry”, but instead he was “safe for safety.” When he was asked about his doubts about the MMR vaccine – he reiterated a claim that he was linked to autism – Kennedy said: “I just want to follow the science, and if the science says that I am wrong about what I said in the past, as I said, I will publicly apologize.”
However, it seemed that Donald Trump supported his allegations on Tuesday, and published it Social truth platform: “20 years ago, autism in children was 1 in 10,000. Now it is 1 in 34.W! There is a really wrong thing. We need Bobby !!!”
