The US Minister of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be released on Thursday in front of a congress committee, where he will ask the federal health authorities questions about turbulence.
The US Senate Financing Committee has appointed Kennedy to “make America healthy again” for a hearing about its plans. However, the health secretary is expected to ask questions about layoffs and planned budget cuts, of which critics say that they arrive at the country’s ability to prevent illnesses.
Kennedy recently released Susan Monarez, a long-time government scientist that he used less than a month as a CDC director, and tried to redesign the country’s vaccine guidelines in order to meet his long-term suspicion of the security and effectiveness of long-term shots.
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Kennedy calls for the CDC ‘New Blood’
Towards the end of his opening speeches, Kennedy said that he wanted “the youngest fillings at CDC”, as “absolutely necessary adjustments” in order to restore the agency as the gold standard in the world.
Kennedy describes the recommendations and guidelines of the COVID-19-era, of which he said that they were implemented “without science and increased economic inequality” such as school closings.
The Trump government released the director of the Susan Monarez agency last week. Several top CDC leaders returned in protest and left the agency in turbulence.
A protester condemned Kennedy’s vaccines during the hearing
Just when Kennedy mentioned the security standards of the vaccine for the first time during his opening speech, a demonstrator in a wheelchair called the secretary and challenged whether he understood current politics and research in connection with vaccine security.
“They kill billions of people,” the demonstror called in the back of the room when they were brought out by the Capitol police.
Senator Mike Crapo, chairman of the Finance Committee, warned other participants against speaking and disturbing the arrangement after the protester has removed.
As HHS Secretary, Kennedy has made a number of decisions that have brought the long -time vaccine critic into full effect on the country’s Ministry of Health.
Wyden tried and failed-to force a formal conspiracy for Kennedy
When the hearing began, Wyden asked Kennedy to have formally sworn as a witness and to oppose the tradition and to say that the HHS Secretary has lied to a history of the Senate Finance Committee.
For example, said Wyden, Kennedy promised that he “would do nothing but HHS secretary, which makes it difficult or keeps people from taking vaccines”. But under Kennedy, the US supervisory authorities have restricted the availability of COVID 19 vaccines for many Americans.
Crapo denied Wyden’s application and said, despite partial disagreements among the committee’s senators: “The final result is that we have the secretary made his own case.”
Kennedy makes comments about the Georgia officer who was killed in the CDC shooting
Kennedy opened his remarks by giving conduct condolences during the shootout of David Rose, a law enforcement officer, while the shootout on August 8th in the US centers for the control and prevention of diseases in Atlanta.
A man opened the fire in front of the agency’s headquarters, left the ball tracks in windows over the extensive campus and killed rose before being found dead in a nearby building.
Kennedy said he visited Roses family and said he was “in our prayers”.
Zelenskyy and European leader stop with Trump
The European heads of state and government took part in a hybrid “coalition of the willing” meeting on Ukraine on Thursday and then held a call with Trump to update it about their work.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy also took part in the call with Trump, according to a person who was familiar with the planning of the call who was not justified to comment publicly.
“They expressed the hope that the United States would continue to make a significant contribution to the joint efforts to support Ukraine, formulate security guarantees and form a productive diplomatic process,” said the Spequich spokesman for the German government, Stefan Kornelius, in an explanation after the meeting that the German chancellor Friedrich Merz virtually set.
Merz determined three “areas of action”, including the work on a summit in which Zelenskyy would also take part, and “a ceasefire there must be agreed there”.
The White House has no immediate comment.
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Wyden challenges GOP colleagues to her support from Kennedy
Oregon’s Democrat asked his Republican Senate colleagues: “What line does Robert Kennedy have to cross before some of them will also join this alarm?”
Alternatively, Wyden asked Kennedy and asked Trump to “dismiss him before more people are injured”.
The hearing has started
Senator Mike Crapo from Idaho, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said every senator would have five minutes to question Kennedy. He said he was expecting a “spirited debate”.
That started immediately. While Crapo announced the government’s “Make America America Healthy” agenda, the democratic rank member, Senator Ron Wyden von Oregon, Kennedy, “prioritized the conspiracies of junk science and Fringe”.
After entering the listening room, Kennedy welcomes Senators, including the Republican Bill Cassidy
Before Kennedy made his seat, he briefly welcomed the assembled senators, including Cassidy, a doctor who observed the re -election.
The support of the Republican in Louisiana was of crucial importance for Kennedy’s confirmation, but the two-time senator expressed himself publicly about his anti-vaccination positions before he voted to confirm Kennedy. This week Cassidy said that he wanted to “carefully frame” his questions at the hearing on Thursday.
Kennedy arrives for hearing the Senate
He was welcomed by screwed -down reporter questions – as well as “We love her, bobby” by supporters in the hallway when he entered the hearing room of the Senate.
Kennedy did not answer any questions, but gave a wave before he went into it.
Senator Thom Tillis about RFK Jr. before appearing in front of a congress committee
When asked whether he had confidence in the Minister of Health Tillis, a Republican in the committee, said he wanted to hear from Kennedy personally.
“He has to reconcile what he said during his confirmation process with what we have seen in the past few months, especially with regard to vaccine policy,” said Tillis.
The former CDC director Susan Monarez speaks out after her shooting
The long-time government scientist, who is available to HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“Public health should not be partisan. Vaccines have saved millions of life under administrations of both parties,” writes Monarez. “I was released because I kept this line. But the line does not disappear with me. It goes through every parent and decides whether a child vaccinated, every doctor who advises patients and every American who demands accountability.”
Monarez was released and replaced by Kennedy’s top deputy Jim O’Neill on acting base.
The White House said that Monarez, who served for only 29 days, was “not” not matched by Trump’s agenda “. The lawyers of Monarez said that they refused to” stamp unscientific, ruthless guidelines and fire experts from rubber “.
Melania Trump will address the Task Force of the White House on AI
Today, first lady gathers today with members of the Task Force for Artificial Intelligence and Managers of the private sector.
Trump has protected the online protection of children to a central part of their “best” initiative. In an explanation of today’s meeting, she said that she would not be surprised if the AI becomes the “greatest engine of progress” in US history.
“But as a guide and parents, we have to deal with the growth of AI,” she added. “During this primitive phase, it is our duty to treat AI like us our own children – strengthening, but with watchful leadership. We live in a moment of amazement and it is our responsibility to prepare the children of America.”
GOP Senator Bill Cassidy, who faces main challengers, carefully goes with CDC and RFK Jr.
The support of Cassidy was of crucial importance for the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a secretary for health and human services. In view of the shooting walls and resignations in the centers for the control and prevention of diseases, which are now concerned about a collapse of the leadership with the leading public health authority of the country, the legislator and the doctor in Louisiana is in a close position.
The two-term senator, who commented publicly about Kennedy’s anti-vaccination positions before he agreed to confirm him, has taken care of “serious allegations” on the CDC and asked for the supervision without accusing Kennedy.
But he chose his words carefully when he returned to Washington this week after the Senate’s August break and prepared to question Kennedy during a financial committee meeting planned for Thursday. Cassidy said reporters that he had not yet decided to ask Kennedy and said: “I would like to carefully frame the question.”
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According to the high -ranking Democrat, RFK Jr. has to “respond to the public”.
In an explanation last week, the US Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon -the highest democrat in the Senate Financing Committee -said: “It is more important than ever that Kennedy answers the public and its representatives about chaos, confusion and damage that cause his actions in American families.”
Kennedy’s track record as a health secretary
In May, Kennedy-a long-standing leader in the anti-Accacine movement-in announced that Covid-19 vaccines are no longer recommended for hearty children and pregnant women, a step that is rejected by medical and public health groups.
In June, he abruptly dissolved an expert committee that advised the government on vaccine policy. He replaced them with a hand -picked group that included several vaccine skeptics, and then closed the door to several groups of doctors who had long contributed to forming the recommendations of the committee.
