Confirmation hearing was a spectacle as Democrats tried to hold a mirror to nominee, only for him to step right through<\/p>\n
Robert F Kennedy Jr\u2019s testimony was a \u201cthrough the looking glass\u201d moment for some senators, as lawmakers questioned one of the nation\u2019s most influential vaccine critics for a job as the top US health official.<\/p>\n
The hearing was a testament to how quickly Republicans have integrated \u201cMake America Healthy Again\u201d rhetoric into their own, lauding Kennedy, who was called a \u201cpredator\u201d<\/a> only hours earlier in a letter by his own cousin, as the correct man to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Confirmation hearing was a spectacle as Democrats tried to hold a mirror to nominee, only for him to step right through Robert F Kennedy Jr\u2019s testimony was a \u201cthrough the looking glass\u201d moment for some senators, as lawmakers questioned one of the nation\u2019s most influential vaccine critics for a job as the top US health … 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-31923","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\/31923","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=31923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}