Health and Human Services -Secretary Robert F Kennedy JR clashed with legislators on vaccines during double conference hearings to defend the proposed $ 30 billion of the Trump administration of the Budget of the Health Agency.
Kennedy has had doubts about the safety and effectiveness of vaccines for years, in particular the measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine, which offers long -term protection against measles virus.
Since the worst measles outbreaks that America has confronted in Texas in 30 years, Kennedy has closed for what legislators and health officials have called a weak approval of the life -saving vaccine. So far, the virus has infected more than 1,000 people and killed two non -vaccinated children.
Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat, began his assigned time in the Health Care, Education, Labor and Pensions Commission by RFK JR to remind us of being promised that the FDA ‘the vaccine forms would not change’ historical standards’.
But, after he took office, Sen Murphy said, RFK JR JR Introdied, Kennedy himself “called a radical departure from current practice” – a shift that experts warned could delay critical immunisations.
Sen Murphy added that, despite the claiming of the measles vaccine, Kennedy has repeatedly undermined it by spreading false claims over rapidly decreasing immunity, unproven safety tests and the displacement myth of fetal tissue in his ingredients.
RFK JR intervened: ‘All true! Do you want me to lie to the audience? “He further said that Americans have lost confidence in the guidance of federal vaccine ‘because they have lied to officials year after year after year.”
The MMR vaccine offers people lifelong protection against the virus. There is no fetal debris in the vaccine and enormous research has established that there is no connection between vaccines and autism.
HHS secretary RFK Jr. Sparred with legislators about vaccines while he defended $ 30 billion budget reductions for his agency during back-to-back hearings
After a memory and bang of the Hammer of the chairman to return to a normal level of decorum, Sen Murphy referred to statements that Kennedy had made earlier that day to the House Apprisions Committee.
One of the most intense exchanges in that earlier hearing came when the democratic representative Mark Pocan of Wisconsin Kennedy immediately asked if he would vaccinate his own child against measles today. After a noticeable hesitation, Kennedy responded with a single word: “Probably.”
He added: I don’t think people should follow medical advice from me, “and he avoided giving straight answers about whether he would vaccinate his children against chickenpox or polio today.
There Pocan said, “Okay, but that’s a kind of your jurisdiction because the CDC gives advice.”
As secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, RFK JR would supervise the CDC.
When referring to his earlier testimonies and statements from the past, Sen Murphy insisted that Kennedy has consistently turned over about his vaccing management.
Kennedy told the public last month in X that ‘most effective way to prevent the spread of measles, the MMR vaccine’, while also promoting liver oil, aerosolized budesonide (a corticosteroid) and clarithromycin (an antibiotic) as a cure for the viral infection.
With a limited time, Murphy said: “I don’t necessarily want to spend the remaining 20 seconds in an argument about science, but at least you understand that that is the result of what you say, and do you still recommend people to get the vaccine or not?”
Connecticut Sen Chris Murphy argued that while Kennedy claims support for measles vaccines, he actively undermines them by pushing false claims – including overly decreasing immunity and the invalided fetal tissue mythe
RFK said, “Senator, if I advised you to swim in a lake, I knew there were alligators, wouldn’t you want me to tell you that there were alligators in it?”
He added: ‘I’m going to tell the truth about everything we know and don’t know about vaccines. I’m not just going to tell people that something is safe and effective if I know there are problems. ‘
Kennedy’s children have been vaccinated against measles, a decision that he said he is now sorry.
Sen Cassidy, a doctor and chairman of the committee, later corrected Kennedy: ‘The secretary has made the statement that no vaccines, except Covid, were evaluated against placebo. For the record, that’s not true.
‘Rotavirus, measles and HPV vaccins have been and some vaccines are tested against earlier versions. So for the record, to put that right. ‘
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