{"id":38379,"date":"2025-04-09T20:33:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T20:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/greene-and-garcia-clash-over-rfk-jr-and-vaccines-measles-outbreak\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T20:33:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T20:33:31","slug":"greene-and-garcia-clash-over-rfk-jr-and-vaccines-measles-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/greene-and-garcia-clash-over-rfk-jr-and-vaccines-measles-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Greene and Garcia clash over RFK Jr. and vaccines, measles outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., clashed Wednesday over the actions of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,<\/a> with the Republican telling the Democrat, “You sound ignorant.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The fiery exchange unfolded during a House Oversight Committee hearing on restoring trust in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where Garcia declared RFK Jr. “has been and will always be a tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Our current HHS secretary is an anti-vax conspiracy theorist<\/a>. And that is a fact. He caused a measles outbreak in another country that caused the death, absolutely,” Garcia started saying before Greene interrupted him and said ,”No, he did not. That\u2019s a lie.”<\/p>\n

“RFK did not cause a measles outbreak. You sound ignorant,” Greene continued as the two began talking over each other.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“Miss Greene, you are an anti-vax conspiracy theorist yourself,” Garcia told her. “You are the No. 1 anti-vax conspiracy theorist in this entire Congress.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“No, I am for choice<\/a>. I am for parents and people choosing,” she said, before claiming, “Vaccines kill people.”<\/p>\n

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RFK Jr. recently visited Texas to encourage people to get the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine amid rising measles cases.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz claimed in January<\/a> ahead of RFK Jr.’s confirmation hearing, “In 2019, [RFK Jr.] flew to Samoa to discourage people from taking the measles vaccine, deepening hesitancy that was already building.<\/p>\n

“And it worked,” the Democrat added. “Vaccination rates for eligible 1-year-olds fell to lower than 33%. And just five months later, Samoa found itself in the middle of a measles outbreak. Over 5,000 people got the measles. Eighty-three people died.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital\u2019s Greg Wehner contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., clashed Wednesday over the actions of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., with the Republican telling the Democrat, “You sound ignorant.”\u00a0 The fiery exchange unfolded during a House Oversight Committee hearing on restoring trust in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), … 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-38379","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\/38379","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=38379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}