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Robert F Kennedy JR, the vaccine suspect, is expected to confirm that it is the highest health official in the United States because the Senate’s major Senate will vote for his nomination along the party.
The Senate Finance Committee voted on Tuesday and passed 14 votes to 13 votes. In favor of Kennedy confirmed the confirmation of the Ministry of Health and Public Service, all Republicans supported Kennedy and all Democrats to vote. His nomination will be voted for a comprehensive Senate later this week.
Republican Senator Bill Cassidy is a former doctor, chairman of the President Senate Health Committee, and Kennedy’s allies believe that it may be a rebel, but he chose to nod to the nomination.
Casidi wrote on the social media platform X before voting that he had a “very fierce dialogue” with Kennedy and the White House, including voting with Vice President JD Vance.
“In view of the serious commitments I got from the government and the opportunity to make progress on issues we agree with, such as healthy food and pro -American agenda, I will vote for me.”
As Cassidy lags behind Kennedy, even if the other three Republican senators are rebellious, his confirmation is likely to vote through the Senate. Possible different politicians include Mickey McConal, Susan Collins and Lisa Micovinsky, who voted against Pitter Hergus nominated as the National Defense Secretary.
Kennedy’s nominated budget for operating huge health departments was $ 190 million, and many health issues were supervised by 13 departments and institutions.
At the hearing of the committee two days last week, Kennedy was baked by the Senator on the record on his questioning of COVID-19 and MMR vaccines, and his financial shares in the Merck blockbuster Gardasil Jab’s vaccine security lawsuit. Essence Subsequently, Kennedy promised to abandon any of the shares in the case.
Kennedy told Senators last week that he was “not an anti -vaccine or anti -industry, but” loved ones “. When asked about his doubt about the MMR vaccine-he repeated a statement that was exposed, that is, poke is related to autism-Kennedy said, “I just want to follow science, if science said what I said to me is what I said to me is The wrong past, as I said, I will apologize publicly. “
At the Hearing of the Senate Health Committee, Casidi said to Kennedy: “I have been fighting your nominations” because he failed to withdraw from the previous criticism of the vaccine.
He asked: “A 70-year-old man, 71-year-old man spent decades to criticize the vaccine for decades, and invests in a financially investing person to find a vaccine fault-can he change his attitude, since he will have the most The attitude affects an important position in the US vaccine policy? ”
