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Kennedy faces questions about vaccines and lead the Senate Disease Control Center


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The Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services is scheduled to witness Robert F. Kennedy Junior on Capitol Hill on Thursday, a week after the disturbances that swept and prevention control centers (CDC).

Legionships of the Senate Financial Committee, which has a specialty on HHS, will hear from Kennedy on the agenda of the health care of President Donald Trump, which the Secretary called it a healthy Make America again.

While the committee does not directly oversee the center of diseases control, the last shooting of the former director of diseases, Susan Monares, is expected to dominate the wave of high -level officials and other movements at the agency that was taken under the duration of Kennedy on the interrogation line from both Republicans and Democratic legislators in the painting.

Senate members are calling for supervision, and they rejected the guidelines of vaccine as illegal, such as disorder disorder in the Disease Control Center

Foreign Minister Robert F. Kennedy Junior, makes its way to the great opening American farmers market at the National Commercial Center on Monday, August 4, 2025 (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

The majority leader of the Senate John Thun, a member of the committee, told reporters that Kennedy would face “difficult questions” from the committee members, especially because of the frustration of Monarerez, who was confirmed by the Senate less than a month before its removal.

“We must take responsibility … we confirm these people,” said Republican South Dakota. “We pass a lot of work to confirm them. They are in the office a month?”

Speculation about the reason behind the launch of Monarerez was shattered with a different position on vaccines compared to Kennedy, who spent most of his presidential campaign and reaching the secretary who is following the effectiveness and safety of vaccination, especially those of Covid-19.

Senator Bill Cassedi, R. La. , Who heads the Senate Health Committee and was the crucial vote that prompted Kennedy to a role in the Trump administration, is scheduled to ask the secretary.

Last week, he asked the Federal Government Consulting Committee, which was full of alternatives chosen by Kennedy after he recently paved the members of the original committee, and postponed its meeting scheduled in September until the “important supervision” was implemented by his committee, and accused any recommendations made by the advisory committee until then.

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American Senator Bill Cassidy, a member of the Senate, Education, Employment and Pensions Committee, is participating in a hearing on the costs of the medicines prescribed in the Derken Office building in the Senate on February 08, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Lietsch/Getty Images)

Cassidy Fox News Digitter told him that he was working on what would seem control measures, and he is expected to announce his plans soon. Meanwhile, he indicated that he was supporting Kennedy and Trump’s commitment to “radical transparency”, but indicated that his main concerns were about children’s health.

Cassidy said: “It is not a matter of R against D. It is not about, as you know, the internecine battles within the Republican Party. It relates to children and grandchildren, and whether they will die or are at risk of death from viable diseases of vaccines.” “Now we have to get to the truth of this.”

He also said that the members of the Consultative Committee for Evidence practices are supposed to receive materials to review them before taking the vaccine recommendations and decisions, but they asked where the information will come in the wake of many members of the Disease Control Center after they left the launch of Monares.

“We must have a kind of radical transparency in what is used as a scientific justification,” he said. “Is it political appointed? Well, to say that the political appointed provides scientific recommendations. Who is the political appointment?

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President Donald Trump at the White House Oval Office in Washington, DC, on Thursday, August 14, 2025. (EPA/Bloomberg through Getty Images)

Senator Steve Denz, another member of the Senate Finance Committee, told the Fox News Digital that his interrogation line will focus on MivePristone and his safety, but added that it was “fair” for legislators to discuss the Kennedy leadership in the Center for Disease Control and HHS.

He said: “It is customary to ask any secretary, but I am sure that many of these issues that were raised are related to some concerns. These questions will be asked, and I am grateful because the secretary will be to explain what he sees is going and the path forward.”

Meanwhile, Kennedy defended his movements in the center of diseases control in A. Wall Street Journal The opinion article on Tuesday, and claimed that “President Trump asked me to restore confidence and restore the center of diseases control to its basic mission.”

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It has been written that the steps of “conflict of interests and bureaucratic satisfaction” have already been taken in the agency, and that the leaders who “resisted reform” had already been replaced.

“Most employees of the Disease Control Center are honest government officials,” Kennedy said. “Under this renewed task, they can take their functions as scientists without bowing to politics. The agency will once again be the global authority in the policy of infectious infection.”

“First, the Center for Disease Control must restore public confidence – and the restoration process has started.” “It will not stop until public health institutions in America serve people with transparency, honesty and integrity.”

Fox News Digital contacted HHS to comment but she didn’t hear immediately.

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