Washington – Senate on Thursday confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Vaccine skeptic controlling USD 1.7 trillion in federal expenses, Vaccine recommendations AND Food safety as well as health insurance programs for about half of the country.
Almost all Republicans became in line behind Trump despite hesitation in front of Kennedy’s views on vaccines, voting 52-48 to raise the offspring of one of the most multi-story American political-and democratic-to the secretary of the Health and Social Work Department. Democrats unanimously opposed Kennedy.
»Read more: Like republican skeptics in the Senate, they reached “yes” in the case of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard
Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnellwho had a polio as a child, he was the only “no” voting among the Republicans, reflecting his stands Trump types For the Pentagon of the Head and the Director of the National Intelligence.
“I am a childhood survivor. During my life, I watched the vaccines save millions of human lives from destructive diseases in America and around the world – said McConnell later. “I will not accept re -lituritation of proven medicines, like millions of Americans who do not grant survival and quality of life to scientific miracles.”
The rest of the GOP, however, adopted the vision of Kennedy with the Directive of the Public Health Agency to focus on chronic diseases such as obesity.
“We have to make America again fit,” said Senator Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, adding that Kennedy will introduce a “fresh perspective” to the office.
»Read more: Is Cory Booker and RFK Jr. Can they create an unlikely alliance for the reform of the American food system?
71 -year -old Kennedy, whose name and family tragedies put him in the National Center for attention since childhood, gained great observation thanks to his populist and sometimes extreme views on food, chemicals and vaccines.
His audience only grew During the Covid-19 pandemicWhen Kennedy devoted a lot of time to the NON -ProS organization, which sued vaccine producers and used social media campaigns to record trust in vaccines, as well as government agencies that promote them.
After the support of Trump, Kennedy insisted that he “be exceptionally set” to revive trust in these public health agencies, including food and medicine agency, disease and disease prevention centers, and the National Institutes for Health.
Last week, Senator Thom Tillis, RN.C., said that he hopes Kennedy “raging” in terms of health care costs and improving the health of Americans. But before he agreed to Kennedy’s support, a potential place Senator Bill CassidyR-la., A doctor who is conducting the Health, Education, Work and Pension Committee, required the assurance that Kennedy would not change the existing vaccine recommendations.
During interrogations in the Senate, the Democrats tried to shoot Kennedy to refuse the long -term theory that vaccines cause autism. Some legislators also raised alarms about Kennedy, who financially use the change of guidelines of vaccines or weakening federal protection of the lawsuit against vaccine producers.
Last year, Kennedy earned over USD 850,000 from an agreement with clients to a law firm, which sued the creators of Gardasil, a human papillomavirus vaccine that protects against cervical cancer. If he was confirmed as a health secretary, he promised to exceed the fees charged from the agreement to his son.
Kennedy will take over the agency during a huge shock of the federal government, led by billionaire Elon Musk, who postponed – even if temporarily billions of dollars of taxpayers in financing public health and left thousands of federal employees who are not sure of their work.
On Friday, Nih announced This would limit billions of dollars in medical research given to universities and cancer used to develop the treatment of diseases such as cancer and alzheimer.
Kennedy also called for a personnel review in Nih, FDA and CDC. Last year, he promised to dismiss 600 employees in NIH, the largest biomedical research founder in the country.
