{"id":71941,"date":"2026-04-16T15:54:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/rfk-jr-accused-of-dangerous-conspiracy-theories-at-heated-budget-hearing\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:54:56","slug":"rfk-jr-accused-of-dangerous-conspiracy-theories-at-heated-budget-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/rfk-jr-accused-of-dangerous-conspiracy-theories-at-heated-budget-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr accused of \u2018dangerous conspiracy theories\u2019 at heated budget hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump ally grilled by lawmakers over \u2018terrible decisions\u2019 on vaccines, public health and funding cuts to key programs<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/apr\/16\/pete-hegseth-trump-democrats-iran-war-us-politics-latest-news-updates\">US politics \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Vaccines and public health dominated a frequently contentious hearing with Robert F Kennedy Jr on Thursday before the US House ways and means committee.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy, the controversial health secretary and a longtime vaccine opponent, has overseen sweeping changes to routine vaccination recommendations and has promoted misinformation even amid the biggest measles outbreak in decades.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/16\/rfk-jr-vaccines-hearing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump ally grilled by lawmakers over \u2018terrible decisions\u2019 on vaccines, public health and funding cuts to key programs US politics \u2013 latest updates Vaccines and public health dominated a frequently contentious hearing with Robert F Kennedy Jr on Thursday before the US House ways and means committee. Kennedy, the controversial health secretary and a longtime &#8230; <a title=\"RFK Jr accused of \u2018dangerous conspiracy theories\u2019 at heated budget hearing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/rfk-jr-accused-of-dangerous-conspiracy-theories-at-heated-budget-hearing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about RFK Jr accused of \u2018dangerous conspiracy theories\u2019 at heated budget 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-71941","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\/71941","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=71941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}