Kennedy Jr., a vocal vaccine skeptic and activist lawyer, was confirmed Thursday as the nation's new health secretary. The Senate voted largely along party lines to put Kennedy at the helm of the $1.7 trillion U.

Mondelez International (NASDAQ: MDLZ) faces rising costs due to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" initiative, which could lead to major reformulations of products like Ritz crackers and Chips Ahoy.

There already are reports detailing how deep cuts at the NIH could curtail research into infectious diseases — a particularly disturbing development as bird flu spreads throughout the U.S. And as I read these reports,

Robert F. Kennedy, jr. secured his confirmation as the nation’s health secretary on Thursday, facing backlash from many — including one Connecticut senator. Kennedy

The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the Trump administration's Health and Human Services Secretary with a vote of 52 to 48.Kennedy will oversee about 80,000 employees with agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),

The confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as Trump’s Health Secretary marks a critical milestone in the deepening war on public health and the consolidation of a fascist government in the United States.

Kennedy’s confirmation comes during a legal battle over whether the National Institutes of Health can cap the percentage of funding it provides for indirect research costs.

Kennedy will oversee some of the federal government’s largest public health agencies, including the NIH, FDA, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Kennedy Jr., then an environmental lawyer, was named by Time magazine as a “hero of the planet” for his pioneering work to clean up America’s waterways. On February 14 of this year, his second day as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services,

Collins told CNN Chief Correspondent Manu Raju that she plans to vote for him and that he will re-examine the cuts made by the White House to the National Institutes of Health. Raju posted on X that Collins told him RFK Jr.

Former HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra told students to remain hopeful despite NIH cuts and Trump’s WHO withdrawal, as he criticized Trump’s policies but said they wouldn’t last.

After the Senate passed the vote to appoint Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the Secretary of Health and Human Servies, Oregon U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden joined an