GOP Senators Who Confirmed RFK Jr. Express Alarm at Contentious Senate Hearing

Republican senators who voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as HHS Secretary expressed serious concerns at a contentious oversight hearing, confronting Kennedy about vaccine panel changes, CDC staffing cuts, and departures from scientific consensus. Senators Mitch McConnell, Bill Cassidy, and Susan Collins pressed Kennedy on measles outbreaks linked to declining vaccination rates and the firing of career public health officials. Kennedy defended his actions as necessary disruption of a captured regulatory system.