Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Department of Health and Human Services, once pitched the idea to run an experiment on the children of Samoa to see whether vaccines actually work.

HONOLULU (Island News) -- Working work toward solidifying the post of Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is reportedly no longer serving as Chairman or Chief Legal Counsel for Children's Health Defense.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. now has a confirmation hearing scheduled ... Close behind him is controversial former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, who also doesn’t have a hearing scheduled.

Members of two Senate committees will have a lot of ground to cover at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearing to be Health and Human Services secretary (which has been scheduled for Jan. 29 ). They should devote most of their time probing how his long history of anti-vaccine advocacy will impact infectious disease control.

RFK Jr. petitioned the FDA in 2021 to revoke authorization of all COVID vaccines. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s personal attorney previously petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to revoke its ...

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President-elect Donald Trump (R) announced author, lawyer, and 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his nominee for secretary of health and human services on November 14, 2024. This presidential appointment requires Senate confirmation.

Leaders from the Biden and Trump administration met last week to discuss how the new government would respond in the event of a crisis. Kennedy, Trump's pick for health secretary, was not present.

Loeffler is a top donor to Trump who served for a time as a U.S. senator from Georgia. She was appointed to the seat by Gov. Brian Kemp and served from 2020 to January 2021, when she lost a special election. She was chief executive of Bakkt, a cryptocurrency trading platform. She will appear before the Small Business Committee.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. now has a confirmation hearing scheduled in the Senate, but his nomination for health and human services secretary remains on shaky ground.

President Donald Trump notched two victories on Thursday as he pushed to get his top officials in place. He also faced new legal challenges.

Democrats, including U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz, blame Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for contributing to a deadly measles outbreak in Samoa in 2019.