Nathaniel Weixel
Longtime vaccine critic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now the nation’s top health official, after the Senate on Thursday voted almost entirely on party lines to confirm him atop a department of nearly 100,000 employees that runs 13 agencies.
The 52-48 confirmation vote for the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services brings to a close a contentious three-month confirmation fight that served as a significant test of the Republican Party’s loyalty to President Trump.
Only Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) cast a GOP vote against Kennedy’s confirmation, after previously bucking his party on Trump’s Defense secretary and national intelligence director.
The founder of one of the country’s most prominent anti-vaccine groups will now run the nation’s vaccine policy, which is just one part of the nearly $2 trillion federal health portfolio.
The final vote was essentially a formality after the Senate Finance Committee last week sent Kennedy’s nomination to the floor on a party-line vote. The full chamber on Wednesday voted 53 to 47 along party lines to end debate and advance the nomination.
Four Republicans would have needed to break with their party and vote with every Democrat for Kennedy’s nomination to fail. Instead, only one did. Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who opposed Pete Hegseth’s nomination to lead the Pentagon, this week said they would support Kennedy despite their lingering concerns over his stance on vaccines.
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Via https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5141880-robert-f-kennedy-jr-confirmed/
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I believe in holding politicians’ feet to the fire, Trace, to make sure they keep their promises.
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The US government has expanded its role, yet again. The segue into health care shows that government seeks control through funding. RFK, Jr. is an attorney, and maybe a good one, but he is no doctor. Nor is the government qualified to mandate individual health initiatives.
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That’s exactly what RFK, Jr is trying to stop, Katherine – the government health mandates. Unfortunately lawyers with court experience have far more knowledge and understanding of medical research than doctors do. My experience with doctors over that last two decades is that they no longer make any effort to keep up with the research. I’m willing to to wager that one of his first acts as Secretary of Health is to ensure that double blind research happens into childhood vaccines. Tony Fauci deliberately blocked that research from occurring.
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I’m beginning to question the whole idea of double-blind research into anything– especially anything with delayed results. Your own blogs indicate vaccines do little good and possibly much harm.
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