Robert F. Kennedy Jr., candidate of President Trump, to lead the extensive German bureaucracy who was responsible for the healthcare system of millions of Americans.
GOP Senator Bill Cassidy, a doctor in Louisiana who has to struggle with the support of Kennedy, finally voted his party in view of the violent pressure of the Republicans to support the candidate, including the threats of a primary challenge in 2026.
The nomination of Kennedy has promoted a party line from 14 to 13 years in the Senate Financing Committee.
All eyes were directed at Cassidy, a member of the committee that also headed another Senate Committee in which he had announced Kennedy on Thursday that he had “struggled with her nomination” because his earlier comments question the security of vaccines And the refusal to accept science that science accepts shows that immunizations do not cause autism in childhood.
Kennedy did not take part in Tuesday.
Kennedy, 71, is the son of the former US -Ty. General Robert F. Kennedy and a nephew of former President John F. Kennedy. The inhabitant of Brentwood, who is married to actor Cheryl Hines, was probably a democrat for decades “Sociopath.”
After winning the elections in November, Trump nominated Kennedy to his secretary for health and human services and led a department with a budget of $ 1.8 billion and $ 90,000. Among the agencies and programs that fall under the area of ​​responsibility of the department are the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for the Control and Prevention of Diseases as well as national health facilities as well as medicaid and Medicare.
His candidacy and nomination confronted a remarkable opposition of several of his relatives, most recently his cousin Caroline Kennedy, who sent the senators a devastating letter last week – the first time when she spoke publicly about his politics.
Caroline Kennedy, the only surviving child of John F. Kennedy, served as an ambassador in two democratic administrations. In the letter, which was first reported by the Washington Post, she warned that her cousin was a “predator”, whose views disqualify vaccinations, and that he continues.
“… He is ready to enrich himself by refusing access to a vaccine that can prevent almost all forms of cervical cancer and the millions of boys and girls were safely administered,” wrote Caroline Kennedy.
In two days after hearing the Senate last week, Kennedy, who promised to “make healthy health in America”, asked himself aggressive questions about his earlier singing skepticism towards vaccines, the assumption of exposed medical claims, financial interests and political pirouettes on topics such as abortion rights.
Kennedy, a once praised environmental attorney, framed the attacks against him as a result of his willingness to ask severe questions from anchored, strong interests such as pharmaceutical companies.
He tried to emphasize problems in the healthcare system in which there is a broad party interdisciplinary agreement such as nutrition and drug abuse.
But Kennedy often contradicted his earlier positions and said that despite a well -documented history, he was in question to question their security, including the chairman for children's health defense for several years, a non -profit organization that incorrectly claims that vaccines in childhood cause autism. He also stumbled and answered questions about the health programs that he would lead if he was confirmed.