Kennedy Grilled on Vaccine Policies, Measles Outbreak

0:00On April 16th, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced a fiery grilling at a Houseways and Means Committee hearing on Thursday, all about vaccines, public, health shifts, and budget cuts. As health secretary and a vocal vaccine skeptic, he's pushed big changes to routine shots right as the U.S. deals with its worst measles outbreak in. Decades. Nearly 2,300 cases in just one year under the Trump administration. Some makers zeroed in on his move to scrap CDC pro-vaccine campaigns and tweaked newborn hepatitis B recommendations despite decades of safety data. Kennedy called kids the sickest generation ever, hitting on food, dyes, and menopause treatments, but dodged direct talk on those unpopular vaccine. Cuts, even as global outbreaks tied back to U.S. cases spilling over. Democrats like Linda Sanchez and Mike Thompson blasted him for spreading misinformation and overruling doctors without a medical degree, saying it's costing kids lives amid rampant measles.

1:01Republicans jumped in too, with Blake Moore calling out false claims linking Tylenol and pregnancy to autism that hurt his family personally. The clash spilled into Medicaid fraud debates, where Kennedy targeted home health aid payments to family members as wasteful while defending. Reinstating suspect agents. Republicans peaked over his past remarks on repairing black children, drawing sharp rebukes from Terry Sewell on institutional bias. This hearing lays bare deep divides on health policy, with Kennedy's reforms like overhauling the preventative task force still rolling out amid. bipartisan pushback and real world outbreaks demanding answers.