Robert F. Kennedy Junior passes the Agency of the main Senate Committee

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Robert F Kennedy Junior, who is skeptical of vaccine, is confirmed as the best health official in the United States after a major Senate committee like the party has voted to agree to his candidacy.

The Senate Finance Committee voted on Tuesday from 14 to 13 in favor of Kennedy’s confirmation of the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services, where all Republicans support Kennedy and all Democrats vote against them. His candidacy will go to a full Senate vote later this week.

The Kennedy Allied, Republican Senator Bill Cassidy, the former doctor who heads the Senate Health Committee, was seen as a possible rebel in the narrow vote, but he chose to give the nudity candidate.

Cassidy wrote on the social media platform X before voting that he had “very intense conversations” with Kennedy and the White House, including with Vice President JD Vance, in the period before voting.

“With the serious obligations I received from the administration and the opportunity to make progress in the issues we agree on, such as healthy foods and a pro -America’s business schedule, I will vote yes,” Cassidy said.

With the fall of Cassidi, wavy behind Kennedy, it is now possible that his confirmation of the full vote in the Senate, even if three other Republican Senate members are rebellious. Among the potential dissidents Mitch McConneel, Susan Collins and Lza Morkovsky, who voted against the nomination of Higseth Beit as defense minister.

Kennedy’s nomination for the administration of the sprawling department, which is $ 1.9 million, has paid 13 divisions and agencies including the Food and Drug Administration organizer, concerned about public health officials and familiar with the pharmaceutical industry due to suspicion of vaccines and controversial views of the number Of health issues.

Over two days of the committee’s listening sessions last week, Kennedy was interrogated by the members of the Senate for his record of questioning the effects of Covid-19 and MMR vaccines, and his financial share in the vaccine safety lawsuit against MERCK from Gardasil Jab. After that, Kennedy promised to abandon his share in any revenue from the case.

Kennedy told Senators last week that he was “not hostile to writing or fighting industry”, but instead he was “safe for safety.” When he was asked about his doubts about the MMR vaccine – he reiterated a claim that he was linked to autism – Kennedy said: “I just want to follow the science, and if the science says that I am wrong about what I said in the past, as I said, I will publicly apologize.”

At the Senate Health Committee session, Cassidy Kennedy told: “I was suffering from your candidacy,” noting his failure to retract his previous criticism of the vaccines.

He asked: “Is a 70-year-old man, a 71-year-old man who spent decades criticizing vaccines, who has invested financially in finding a mistake with vaccines-can he change his positions and approach now after he got more than others an important situation that affects a policy The vaccine in the United States?