Republican doctor who may be a barrier to RFK Junior confirmed

Washington-Sen Bill Cassidi, R-La., On Thursday suspected whether Robert F. Kennedy Junior is eligible to be the next leader of the government’s largest and most powerful health agency.

A doctor, caseid, has emerged as a major swing vote Kennedy’s dialect to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Cassidi presides over health, education, labor and pension committee and sits on the finance committee, two panels Kennedy had testified before this week.

Cassidi was harassed about his views on Kennedy, which has a long history of anti-vaccine activism, in the weeks by President Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate him.

At the end of Thursday’s hearing, Cassidi stated that he was “struggling” with Kennedy’s nomination.

“Your past to reduce confidence in vaccines with baseless or misleading arguments,” said Cassidi. “Can I trust that now in the past?” Can data and information change your opinion, or will you only look for data supporting a predetermined conclusion? ,

A day after Kennedy, questioned in a line of inquiry Cassiidly About this Medicaid,

The reservation of casidi is a possible complexity for Kennedy. As the chairman of the committee, Cassidi extended the tone of Thursday’s hearing, repeatedly questioned Kennedy’s previous stance, especially about vaccines. He focused on Kennedy’s statements several times on the statements of connecting vaccines with autism and repeatedly gave him opportunities to tell that vaccines do not cause complex neurological and developmental conditions.

“I can say that I have contacted it using the east of the evidence to assure and you contacted using the evidence selected to doubt,” Cassidi said.

The built -in question, Cassidi said, “Is Kennedy as a 71 -year -old man,” who has spent the decades criticizing the vaccines for decades and is financially linked to finding a mistake with the vaccine, “change his ways” now “now” He will be the most important “status of affecting the vaccine policy in the United States. ,

It was a question that Kennedy would not directly answer. He became vigorous many times in relation to autism, asking that the disease control and prevention center did not do much to see what the situation was.

“Why don’t we know what is the reason for this epidemic? Why is CDC not looking at other hypotheses to determine this … Why have we increased this dramatic, 1,000% that is destroying our children? This is probably the biggest issue, ”Kennedy said. “Why do we not know the answers after 30 years of continuous increase in autism rate? Why don’t we know the answer? We should know the answer. ,

Scientists and advocates agree that due to autism, there should be more research, But they have indicated Kennedy’s accommodation on a debanked link for vaccines risks only in the principle that has been rejected.

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After Thursday’s hearing, Kennedy would not answer the NBC News reporter’s questions whether he saw enough science to refrain the vaccine to refrain the reason for autism. At the conclusion of the hearing, Kennedy went to Cassidi, quietly told him something and shook his hand.

“You must be listening to me in the weekend,” Cassidi told him.

Caution of casidi about Kennedy is important. As a member of the Finance Committee, he will vote on whether the nomination to the entire Senate should be carried forward.

Kennedy can lose only three Senate Republican support on the floor if all democrats are united against it. So far, no GOP Senator has publicly opposed their nomination.

Cassidi, who was among the Senate Republicans, to vote for Trump to vote in the impeachment test after January 6, 2021, a riot in US Capital, Already drawn A potential primary challenger if he decides to seek the election again in 2026.

TK has been a central part of the political functions of Cassidi. In the 1990s, he helped establish a partnership in Louisiana’s Baton Rouge, with 36,000 children with free vaccines against Hepatitis B.

As a senator, he introduced Bipartisan bill Improving the rate of vaccination among pregnant women. He has supported vaccination requirements in public schools.

Cassidi on Thursday heard with a story about “the worst day of my medical career”, recalling her experience of treating a young woman with Hepatitis B for a liver transplant. While he was loading her in an ambulance, Cassidi said, he was killed.

“I felt that $ 50 vaccines could stop all this. And this was a divine point in my career, and since then, I have tried to do everything I can make sure that I never talk to another parent about their child To do those who are dying to die due to vaccine-pre-disease. ,

When Cassidi asked Kennedy if he would unevenly assure the mothers that measles and hepatitis B would not cause vaccine autism, Kennedy said that, on condition that he had seen supporting the data, that assurance Will go beyond

Kennedy said, “Not only I will do this, but I will apologize for any statement that mislead people.” “I just want to pledge you that I will never be at a point if someone shows me data that says I am wrong.”

At one point, Kennedy said that he saw recent research reduced the notion that there was no relation between autism and vaccines.

Cassidi stopped his inquiry and seemed to look at the study, while Sen Burney Sanders, I-VT.

“I saw in the article,” Cassidi said on his return. “It seems that there are some issues.”

Cassidi on Thursday asked Kennedy to remove himself from his previous comments on vaccines.

“Man, if you unevenly come out the vaccines are safe, it does not cause autism, it will have an incredible effect,” Cassidi said. “This is your power. So what is going to happen? Will it use reliability to support a lot of articles, or will it use reliability to weaken? ,

Cassidi said, “I have come to know that it is revealed for my vote.” He said that he wants to promote Trump’s agenda, but he is a real concern that Kennedy’s false vaccines would have a troublesome shadow on Trump’s legacy of the second period.