{"id":19166,"date":"2025-09-05T00:46:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T00:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=19166"},"modified":"2025-09-05T00:46:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T00:46:36","slug":"senators-question-r-f-k-jr-over-vaccines-and-c-d-c-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=19166","title":{"rendered":"Senators Question R.F.K. Jr. Over Vaccines and C.D.C Turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Senators Question R.F.K. Jr. Over Vaccines and C.D.C Turmoil<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><span>Back<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-8p0vwh\">Senators Question R.F.K. Jr. Over Vaccines and C.D.C Turmoil<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was combative and dismissive with lawmakers during a Senate hearing and refused to change his stance on vaccines, the C.D.C. and Medicaid.<\/h4>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cI asked her, \u2018Are you a trustworthy person?\u2019 And she said, \u2018No.\u2019 So if you had an employee who told you they weren\u2019t trustworthy, would you ask them to resign, Senator?\u201d \u201cSo I\u2019m sorry, but this is not what she has said publicly. She has said \u2014\u201d \u201cI\u2019m not surprised about that.\u201d \u201cSo you\u2019re saying she\u2019s lying?\u201d Yes. Every conversation I had with her \u2014\u201d \u201cLet me get this straight. This is the same person that less than a month earlier, you stood next to her and described her as unimpeachable, and you had full confidence in her and that you had full confidence in her scientific credentials. And in a month, she became a liar?\u201d \u201cYou should ask her what changed. And by the way, a month ago, you were voting against her.\u201d \u201cMr. Secretary, do you agree with me that the president, that the president deserves a Nobel Prize for Operation Warp Speed?\u201d \u201cYeah, absolutely, Senator.\u201d \u201cYou were also as lead attorney for the Children\u2019s Health Defense, you engaged in multiple lawsuits attempting to restrict access to the Covid vaccine. Again, it surprises me that you think so highly of Operation Warp Speed when as an attorney, you attempted to restrict access.\u201d \u201cTo Senator Cassidy\u2019s colleagues\u2019 points that they\u2019re going to have to go off-label.\u201d \u201cThis is crazy talk.\u201d \u201cTo prescribe a vaccine for children \u2014 I\u2019m not making things up. Do you know how the F.D.A. approval process works?\u201d \u201cYeah, I do \u2014\u201d \u201cDo you know what an off-label \u2014\u201d \u201cI know exactly how it works. We\u2019re infusing more than 50 percent increase in the amount of money that is going to rural communities over the next five years. It\u2019s going to be the biggest infusion of federal dollars into rural health care in American history.\u201d \u201cYou know why? Because you\u2019re cutting $150 billion for rural hospitals. You\u2019re putting $50 billion back. That\u2019s not an infusion. That\u2019s a loss of $100 billion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: Senators Question R.F.K. Jr. Over Vaccines and C.D.C Turmoil transcript Back transcript Senators Question R.F.K. Jr. Over Vaccines and C.D.C Turmoil Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was combative and dismissive with lawmakers during a Senate hearing and refused to change his stance on vaccines, the C.D.C. and Medicaid. \u201cI asked her,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[11656,487,2238,1678,9992,78],"class_list":{"0":"post-19166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-c-d-c","9":"tag-question","10":"tag-r-f-k","11":"tag-senators","12":"tag-turmoil","13":"tag-vaccines"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}