{"id":31903,"date":"2025-01-30T00:15:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T00:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/rfk-jr-and-democrats-clash-over-his-vaccine-history-in-confirmation-hearing\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T00:15:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T00:15:24","slug":"rfk-jr-and-democrats-clash-over-his-vaccine-history-in-confirmation-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/rfk-jr-and-democrats-clash-over-his-vaccine-history-in-confirmation-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr and Democrats clash over his vaccine history in confirmation hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats confront Trump\u2019s pick for health secretary over his seemingly contradictory statements<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/29\/rfk-jr-abortion\">RFK Jr faces questions about U-turn on abortion in US Senate hearing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Robert F Kennedy Jr\u2019s combative Senate confirmation hearing for health secretary erupted into fierce exchanges on Wednesday morning, as Democrats confronted one of the US\u2019s most prominent vaccine skeptics who possibly will be handed the reins of its public health system.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate finance committee ranking member, Ron Wyden, challenged the 71-year-old Kennedy over seemingly contradictory statements, reading quotes from podcasts in which the nominee had claimed \u201cno vaccine is safe and effective\u201d while testifying under oath that he supports vaccines. He read another quote from 2020 how Kennedy claimed he regretted vaccinating his children.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/29\/rfk-jr-senate-confirmation-hearing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats confront Trump\u2019s pick for health secretary over his seemingly contradictory statements RFK Jr faces questions about U-turn on abortion in US Senate hearing Robert F Kennedy Jr\u2019s combative Senate confirmation hearing for health secretary erupted into fierce exchanges on Wednesday morning, as Democrats confronted one of the US\u2019s most prominent vaccine skeptics who possibly &#8230; <a title=\"RFK Jr and Democrats clash over his vaccine history in confirmation hearing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/30\/rfk-jr-and-democrats-clash-over-his-vaccine-history-in-confirmation-hearing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about RFK Jr and Democrats clash over his vaccine history in confirmation hearing\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}