The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate has given its stamp of approval to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, despite his noted vaccine skepticism and other conspiracy-based beliefs on myriad health subjects.
The vaccine critic is poised to be confirmed and pursue his agenda of fighting chronic disease even while pushing through the administration’s cost cuts.
The Senate has confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as President Donald Trump’s health secretary. That Thursday vote puts the prominent vaccine skeptic in control of $1.7 trillion in federal spending,
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Kennedy clinches top US health job despite anti-vaccine views
CDC vaccine panel delayed after Robert F Kennedy assumes top US health job
Kennedy was approved as HHS secretary by the Senate last week in a 52-48 vote, with Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, a polio survivor, casting the only dissenting vote from his party. Kennedy secured the backing of reluctant Republican senators by promising to avoid shaking up vaccine policy.
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CDC vaccine meeting postponed after RFK Jr. confirmation
Kennedy managed to allay the concerns of several key GOP senators over his anti-vaccine activism. Mitch McConnell was the lone Republican to vote against him.
The vote capped a remarkable rise for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was confirmed by a Republican Senate in a chamber where his father and uncles once served as Democrats.
Longtime anti-vaccine critic Robert F. Kennedy was confirmed Tuesday as the new Secretary of Health and Human Services. Here's what to know now.
The US Senate on Thursday confirmed the long-time anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services. The vote was largely along party lines, with a tally of 52 to 48.
The Republican-controlled US Senate was expected Thursday to approve vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary, despite major concerns from both political parties and many
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HHS postpones meeting of key CDC vaccine panel, one week after RFK Jr. sworn in
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Vaccine safety panel long criticized by RFK Jr. told to postpone meeting
Meeting of key CDC vaccine advisory panel, under scrutiny by RFK Jr., is postponed
An upcoming meeting of the ACIP, a key CDC vaccine advisory panel that is under scrutiny by RFK Jr., has been postponed. A U.S. official said it would be rescheduled.
Kennedy Jr. to run the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), installing an anti-vaccine activist and conspiracy theorist to head a $1.8 trillion agency that oversees the nation’s largest health programs.
The Senate has confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as President Donald Trump’s health secretary. That vote Thursday puts the prominent vaccine skeptic in control of $1.7 trillion in federal spending,
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