Washington (AP) – The Senate is expected to be confirmed on Thursday by confirming Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for about half of the country.
Despite several republicans who express deep skepticism towards his views, Kennedy will be confirmed without being made at the last minute.
Kennedy, 71, whose celebrated name and families have set him in the national spotlight since childhood, has earned a huge supporter with his populist – and sometimes extreme – look at food, chemicals and vaccines.
His audience only grew during the Covid 19 pandemic, when Kennedy devoted a enormous part of his time to a non-profit organization, sued vaccination and used social media campaigns to undermine trust in vaccines and the government authorities that promote them.
With the support of Republican President Donald Trump, Kennedy believes that he is “uniquely positioned” in order to revive the trust in these public health authorities, to which the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for the Control and Prevention of Diseases and the National Institute for Health belong.
Republican senators have largely accepted Kennedy’s vision and recited his newly hatched slogan in speeches to make America well again.
Last week North Carolina Gop Senator Thom Tillis said, he hoped that Kennedy will be “wild” to rule the health costs and improve the health of the Americans. A holdout – GOP Senator Bill Cassidy, a doctor in Louisiana – required the assurances that Kennedy would not make any changes to the existing vaccine recommendations before he agreed to support him.
The Democrats have remained skeptical and have unsuccessfully pushed Kennedy during the hearings to refuse a long discredited theory that causes vaccines. And some have triggered alarms via Kennedy, which benefit financially from the change in the vaccination guidelines or the weakening of the protection of the federal government against vaccines.
Last year, Kennedy achieved more than 850,000 US dollars from an agreement on the order of a law firm that sued the manufacturers of Gardasil, a human papillomavirus vaccine that protects against cervical cancer. During his Ministry of Health, he promised to take over the fees collected by the agreement to his son.
Jobs are expected.
On Friday, the NIH announced that medical research at universities and cancer that are used to develop treatments for diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer’s are circumscribed to billions of US dollars.
Kennedy also called for a personnel overhaul at NIH, FDA and CDC. Last year, he swore to relieve 600 employees at the NIH, the largest biomedical research in the country.
