Pressing in questions in the United States Senate, Donald Trump’s Minister of Health, Robert Kennedy JR, defended his criticized measures against vaccines on Thursday, September 4, when scientists and Democrats are asking for their resignation.
“I did not withdraw the vaccines to anyone,” said this former lawyer played for his anti -Vaccini positions, during a tormentous audience that lasted almost three hours.
Its approval before the Senate Finance Committee should have focused on its policy by 2026, but quickly degenerated in the verbal confrontation with democratic parliamentarians.
“When did you lie, sir?”
They accused the Minister of Health of having lied promising at the beginning of the year of respecting science and maintaining access to Americans to vaccines, which he strongly denied.
“When did you lie, sir: when you declared before this commission that it was not anti-vax, or when they told the Americans that there was no safe and effective vaccine?” He attacked Democratic Senator Tina Smith, referring to the previous words of the minister.
Other parliamentarians on the left, like Ron Wyden, went so far as to ask for his departure. “It is in the interest of the country that Robert Kennedy Jr renounces, and if he does not, Donald Trump must say goodbye,” he thundered.
The previous day, more than a thousand current and previous employees of the Ministry had called him to leave his duties in an open letter, saying that he was putting the population “in danger”.
Democrats invent “things to scare people”
Drawing these accusations as a whole, the minister accused the Democrats of “inventing (r) things to scare people” and be in the hands of the pharmaceutical industry.
In a few months, “RFK JR” began a deep review of American health policy and vaccines, dismissing renowned experts, restricting access to COVVI-19 vaccines or suppressing funds for the development of new vaccines.
Many measures that have outraged many medical experts and institutions, and that care even in the ranks of the Republican party.
Several conservative senators interviewed the minister, in a friendly tone, however, in his vaccination policy, Thom Tillis even pointed out certain inconsistencies between his comments and actions.
Defense in social networks, Vice President JD Vance attacked parliamentarians who “tried to teach” the minister: “You tell anything,” he said.
“Trust person”
This audience occurred a few days after the controversial dismissal of the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the country’s main health agency.
This scientist had assured through his lawyers that he was pushed outside his refusal to validate “non -scientific and dangerous directives.”
What “RFK JR” denied, offering this Thursday a fairly surprising justification. “I told him that I had to give up because when I asked ‘Are you a reliable person?’ She replied ‘No’, “he said.
He also insisted on the “need for a new direction in bold” and “competent” at the head of the CDC, whose “disastrous” management of the COVVI-19.
The former lawyer respected in the environmental law, Robert Kennedy JR has transmitted years for many conspiracy theories and false information about vaccines.
Many experts fear that the population will lose confidence in vaccines, which could result in a return of missing contagious diseases, such as measles, which killed several deaths in the United States in 2025.
And what could lead to the country even more, vaccines are in the heart of a political show between Republicans and Democrats.
Florida, a conservative state, announced this week that she wants to eliminate all vaccination obligations, while Western democratic states, California in mind, want to make a piece to make pieces for vaccinosceptic policies.
Source: BFM TV
