Sen. Bill Cassidy began the second day of Robert F. Kennedy’s confirmation hearings by reminding President Donald Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services that “it’s no secret” he has some reservations about Kennedy’s positions on vaccines.
“Your past of undermining confidence in vaccines with unfounded or misleading arguments concerns me,” Cassidy, who chairs the Senate’s Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, said. “Can I trust that that is now in the past?”
Kennedy is one of Trump’s most controversial nominees, in no small part because of his long public history on vaccines. That’s a potential difficulty for him making it out of the Senate: He can only lose three Republican votes and still be confirmed without Democratic support.