The highest Republican on the Senate’s chief well being committee, Sen. Invoice Cassidy, R-La., indicated Thursday throughout Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s second affirmation listening to of the week that his vote for Trump’s nominee to go Well being and Human Providers was not a lock, noting that he was “struggling” to substantiate Kennedy over his incapability to confess vaccines are secure and do not trigger autism.
Kennedy confronted two separate hearings in entrance of Senate lawmakers this week in his bid to be the following Secretary of the Division of Well being and Human Providers. Kennedy was probed continuously over his views on vaccines, which have been a sticking level for a lot of senators as they determine whether or not to vote in favor of Kennedy’s nomination, or not.
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Through the hearings, Kennedy refused to reject claims he has posited publicly prior to now that vaccines trigger autism and argued he’s not anti-vaccine however somewhat “pro-safety.” Kennedy added in the course of the hearings that his plan as HHS Secretary can be to “comply with the science,” noting that if the science says he’s unsuitable on vaccines, he’ll publicly apologize.Â
However senators, like Cassidy, have urged throughout Kennedy’s affirmation hearings that the science says vaccines are secure – and so they do not trigger autism.  Â
“My duty is to be taught, try to decide, in case you will be trusted to assist the most effective public well being,” Cassidy, a former doctor, mentioned throughout his closing remarks at Kennedy’s Thursday affirmation listening to in entrance of the Senate Committee on Well being, Schooling, Labor and Pensions (HELP). “A worthy motion known as ‘MAHA,’” Cassidy continued, “to enhance the well being of People, or to undermine it, all the time asking for extra proof, and by no means accepting the proof that’s there … That’s the reason I have been struggling together with your nomination.”Â
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Cassidy repeatedly requested Kennedy in the course of the Thursday listening to to publicly declare that vaccines do not trigger autism, however Kennedy refused. “That might have an unimaginable impression,” Cassidy mentioned.Â
“There are points we’re, man, ultra-processed meals, weight problems, we’re simpatico. We’re utterly aligned,” Cassidy continued throughout his closing remarks. “And as somebody who has mentioned immunizations with 1000’s of individuals, I perceive that moms need reassurance that the vaccine their little one is receiving is important, secure and efficient. We agree on that time, the 2 of us, however we have approached it in another way. And I feel I can say that I’ve approached it utilizing the preponderance of proof to reassure, and you’ve got approached it utilizing selective proof to solid doubt.”
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In the meantime, Cassidy identified the large “megaphone” Kennedy has as a descendant of former President John F. Kennedy, and questioned whether or not he’ll use his credibility “to assist” or “to undermine” the nation’s public well being and its confidence in vaccines.
“I received to determine that out, for my vote.”