The United States Minister of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Junior, who faces interrogation from the two parties in the hearing of the Senate Committee for three hours on Thursday, defended his efforts to decline the recommendations of the Covid-19 vaccine and explain the disturbances he created in federal health agencies.
Kennedy said that the CDC director, who opened uncontrolled shooting, stood beside his former rhetoric to combat Al-Qazam, and was disputed by reports of people who say they had difficulty obtaining Covid-19 footage.
Medical groups and many Democrats in Congress called for Kennedy to be expelled and exchanged with the Democratic Senate members of the committee that has been repeatedly and repeatedly moved to screaming, from both sides.
The Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services Robert F. Kennedy Junior, in front of the Senate Finance Committee in Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, September 4, 2025.
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However, some Republican Senate members expressed his dissatisfaction with his changes on Covid-19 policies.
Senate members of the Republican Party indicated that Kennedy said that President Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Prize for the Covid -19 Covid -19 vaccines quickly – and that he also attacked safety and using these same shots.
“I cannot know your location in the warp.”
Tellis and others asked him why the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was launched last week, less than a month after her mandate.
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren Kennedy accused him of responding to his statements during his confirmation session that he would not take off the vaccines to the Americans they wanted.
Kennedy said that she was not honorable, and that the leaders of the Center for Disease Control who left the agency last week to support it deserved to be launched.
He also criticized the recommendations of the Center for Disease Control during the Covid -19 pandemic linked to lock panels and policies, and he claimed – wrongly – that they “failed to do anything about the disease itself.”
“The people who supervised this process, who put masks on our children, who closed our schools, are the people who will leave,” Kennedy said. He later said they deserve to be shot because not doing enough to control chronic diseases.
Democrats express hostility from the beginning
The Senate Financial Committee had invited Kennedy to a hearing on his plans to “make America healthy again”, but Democratic Senate members pressed Kennedy on his actions about vaccines.
At the beginning of the session, Senator Ron Widen of Oregon tried to formally reside as a witness, saying that the HHS secretary had a history of lying to the committee. “The bottom line is that we will allow the Amin to present his own case.”.
Widan continued to attack Kennedy, saying that he was “degraded the deck” of the Consulting Committee for vaccine vaccines by replacing scientists with “skeptics and conspiracy.”
Last week, the Trump administration launched the director of the Disease Control Center less than a month after its term. Several senior CDC leaders resigned in protest, leaving the agency in a disturbance.
The absolute director, Susan Monarerez, wrote in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday that Kennedy was trying to weaken public health protection.
Monares wrote: “I was told to be subjected to the recommendations of a newly -filled vaccine committee for people who publicly expressed anti -ratification speech,” Monares wrote. “It is necessary that the recommendations of the committee are not sealed from rubber, but instead they are strictly and scientifically reviewed before accepting or rejecting them.”
Kennedy told Al -Senator that he had not made such a warning, although he admitted that he had ordered Monares to shoot scientists to control diseases.
Kennedy retreated to the concerns raised by many Republican Senate members, including Teles and John Paraso’s sensation from Wyoming and Bill Cassidy from Louisiana. Both Pararasu and Cascent doctors.
Screaming matches and hot return
The Minister of Health had made animation, as Democratic Senators pressed him on the effects of his words and actions.
When the Senator Rafael Warrenuk, from Georgia, asked Kennedy about his reprehensible speech about the employees of the Disease Control Center before a deadly shooting at the agency this summer, Kennedy returned back: “Are you complicit in assassination attempts by President Trump?”
“He talks about his desire” and accused him “of not understanding how the world works” when Logan Kennedy asked to pledge to share the protocols of any research that Kennedy was giving autism and vaccines.
Democratic Senator at Minnesota Tina Smith Kennedy criticized his comments after shooting at the deadly school last week.
He was also involved in hot and loud exchanges with Sens. Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts and Tina Smith from Minnesota.
“I haven’t heard even your question,” Kennedy answered Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, as he asked a democratic in Nevada repeatedly what the agency was doing to reduce drug costs for the elderly.
Senator Bernie Sanders also told Fermont Independent had no “any meaning.”
Bernie Sanders, the independent Senator from Vermont, suggested that he would attend Susan Monarerez, director of the Disease Control Center, to Capitol Hill to testify.
Kennedy opposes Covid-19 data
In May, Kennedy – a long -standing pioneer in the Anti -Qazi Movement – declared Covid -19 vaccines that will not be recommended for healthy children and pregnant women, a step opposed by medical and public health groups.
In June, a team of experts who were advising the government suddenly launched a vaccine policy. Replace them with a selected group among many skeptics of vaccines, then closed the door for many doctors’ groups that have long helped form the committee’s recommendations.
Kennedy expressed the lack of confidence in the research that showed that the Covid -19 vaccines saved lives, and in a session on Thursday until doubts about how people died during the epidemic and on estimates about the number of deaths that were avoided – the statistics produced by the agencies that they supervise.
He said that the federal health policy will be based on the standard gold science, but he admitted that he will not necessarily wait for studies before taking measures against, for example, the possible causes of chronic disease.
“We are not waiting for everything to come. We have started now,” he said.
A number of medical groups say that Kennedy cannot be relied on to make decisions based on strong medical evidence. In a statement on Wednesday, the Association of Infectious Diseases in America and 20 other medical and public health organizations issued a joint statement calling for resignation.
The statement said: “Our country needs a leadership that would enhance an open and honest dialogue, and not ignore decades of the science of saving life, spreading wrong information, reverse medical progress and programs that keep us safe.”
Several leading associations in the country’s public and medical associations, including the American Medical Association, the American Public Health Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, encouraged Kennedy’s policies and warn that they will increase the rates of conjunctible diseases.
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Stop mentioned from New York. The Associated Press Mary Claire Galoniki contributed to this report.
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