In his first confirmation hearing before senators as President Trump’s health secretary nominee, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday tried to distance himself from his past statements on abortion and vaccines, but offered no concrete details on how he would tackle the nation’s chronic disease epidemic.
Kennedy, while surrounded by many supporters, faced sometimes combative questions on dozens of topics, spanning from President Trump’s recent executive orders and funding freezes to Medicaid, public health agencies, infectious disease outbreaks, the food supply, and more.
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