{"id":33226,"date":"2025-02-13T17:08:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T17:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-confirmed-as-health-secretary-by-senate\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T17:08:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T17:08:52","slug":"robert-f-kennedy-jr-confirmed-as-health-secretary-by-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-confirmed-as-health-secretary-by-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert F Kennedy Jr confirmed as health secretary by Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vaccine skeptic will now lead the US\u2019s vast healthcare system after gaining backing of key Republican senators<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/feb\/13\/rfk-lutnick-trump-musk-putin-ukraine-us-politics-live-news\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/robert-f-kennedy-jr\">Robert F Kennedy Jr<\/a> will take control of America\u2019s vast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/healthcare\">healthcare<\/a> apparatus, as the Senate voted on Thursday to confirm the controversial anti-vaccine campaigner\u2019s nomination as health secretary.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate voted 52 to 48, with all Republicans other than Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell backing the former environmental lawyer who abandoned his independent presidential bid last year to endorse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/13\/rfk-health-secretary-confirmed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vaccine skeptic will now lead the US\u2019s vast healthcare system after gaining backing of key Republican senators US politics live \u2013 latest updates Robert F Kennedy Jr will take control of America\u2019s vast healthcare apparatus, as the Senate voted on Thursday to confirm the controversial anti-vaccine campaigner\u2019s nomination as health secretary. The Senate voted &#8230; <a title=\"Robert F Kennedy Jr confirmed as health secretary by Senate\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/13\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-confirmed-as-health-secretary-by-senate\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Robert F Kennedy Jr confirmed as health secretary by Senate\">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-33226","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\/33226","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=33226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}