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Robert Kennedy Jr. Confirmed to Lead Health and Human Services Department
The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Robert Kennedy, Jr., to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
A longtime critic of vaccines, Kennedy will oversee the nation’s sprawling health care bureaucracy, which includes the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Medicare and Medicaid. In a statement Wednesday, Murkowski said that while she had earlier “misgivings” about Kennedy, she was swayed by his commitment to addressing chronic illness as a driver of high health care costs. Cassidy said on the Senate floor last week that he had received hundreds of messages about his vote on the nomination, including from pediatricians who are alarmed at the decline in vaccination rates.
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