RFK Jr. to face grilling from senators at his first confirmation hearing

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to face his first Senate confirmation hearing as President Donald Trump's nominee to be the secretary of health and human services.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to face his first Senate confirmation hearing as President Donald Trump's nominee to become the next secretary of health and human services Wednesday, when he is expected to be grilled about his views on vaccines and abortion, as well as potential conflicts of interest he would face in the role.

While several of Trump's Cabinet picks have generated controversy, few have provoked the level of outside opposition from both the right and the left that Kennedy, a former third-party presidential candidate, has drawn.

Kennedy has been the subject of negative paid ad campaigns, with liberals criticizing his anti-vaccine positions and conservatives decrying his stances on abortion. Physicians and Nobel laureates have publicly warned about him, accused him of politicizing science.

And on the eve of his hearing before the Senate Finance Committee, he got a stinging rebuke from his own family.

On Tuesday, his cousin Caroline Kennedy wrote a scathing letter asking the Senate to deny his confirmation. She described him as a “predator” who once delighted in a “perverse scene of despair and violence,” placing baby chickens and mice into a blender to feed his hawks. She also accused him of enticing other family members into addiction. 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/rfk-jr-confirmation-hearing-senate-health-human-services-secretary-rcna189437


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