Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defends public health overhaul before Congress

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00:00Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified before the Senate

00:04Finance Committee Thursday, where he unapologetically defended his approach to health care and

00:09his restructuring of the nation's health agencies.

00:15Before the hearing even started, Democratic lawmakers, health organizations, and current

00:20and former HHS employees called for Kennedy to resign or be fired.

00:24It is in the country's best interest that Robert Kennedy step down, and if he doesn't,

00:30Donald Trump should fire him before more people are hurt by his reckless disregard for science

00:35and the truth.

00:36Just in the last month, Secretary Kennedy has fired CDC Director Susan Monterey and canceled

00:41$500 million in funding to help develop vaccines using mRNA, which is how the COVID vaccine was

00:47created in record time.

00:49Kennedy also revoked the Emergency Use Authorization for the COVID-19 vaccine,

00:53which evidence presented at the hearing shows is confusing doctors about who should get it.

00:59Secretary Kennedy said all these moves are important steps to restore public trust in health care.

01:04CDC failed that responsibility miserably during COVID when its disastrous and nonsensical policies

01:12destroyed small businesses, violated civil liberties, closed our schools, caused generational

01:18damage in doing so, masked infants with no science, and heightened economic inequality.

01:25And that's why we need bold, competent, and creative new leadership at CDC.

01:30In June, Kennedy removed and replaced every member of the Advisory Committee for Immunization

01:35Practices, or ACIP, which makes recommendations to the CDC about the safety, efficacy, and clinical

01:41need for vaccines.

01:42Critics say Kennedy's appointees have a history of questioning vaccines that have been proven

01:48effective.

01:49The new members will meet for the first time on September 18th and 19th.

01:53There's bipartisan concern that some of these members could try to revoke vaccine guidance

01:59that has been proven to work.

02:00I hope that you will tell the American people how many preventable child deaths are an acceptable

02:08sacrifice for enacting an agenda that I think is fundamentally cruel and defies common sense.

02:15Senator, you've sat in that chair for how long?

02:1920, 25 years while the chronic disease in our children went up to 76 percent.

02:25And you said nothing.

02:26You never asked the question why it's happening.

02:28Why is this happening?

02:29Some of the vaccines that could be discussed at the ACIP meeting include measles, mumps,

02:34and rubella, and hepatitis B.

02:36There are real concerns that safe, proven vaccines like measles, like hepatitis B, and others could

02:42be in jeopardy.

02:43And that would put Americans at risk and reverse decades of progress.

02:47As we've seen over the last four years, the previous administration four years, when

02:51recommendations became politicized or were swayed by bias, that the public trust can be lost.

02:57Kennedy said he doesn't expect any changes to the MMR vaccine, which babies and children

03:02get in two doses.

03:03He also said it's wrong to say he's denying people vaccines.

03:07In addition to Kennedy's new approach to vaccine safety, senators also took issue with him openly

03:12casting doubt on government data.

03:14You're the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

03:17You don't have any idea how many Americans died from COVID?

03:21I don't think anybody knows that because there was so much data chaos coming out of the CDC.

03:28The criticism doesn't appear to have changed Kennedy's mind.

03:31In fact, right after the hearing was over, HHS announced it is reinforcing religious and

03:36conscience exemptions for vaccine mandates for children.

03:40I'm Ray Bogan for Straight Arrow News.

03:42For more unbiased reporting straight from our nation's capital, download the SAN app.

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