Robert F. Kennedy Jr. focused a lot of his proposals on diet-related diseases among low-income Americans during his confirmation hearing on Wednesday.

The recent Senate confirmation hearings for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presented a striking scene that would confuse a time traveler from 10 years ago. Democratic lawmakers took turns excoriating a man who once embodied their ideals. Sen. Bernie Sanders, seemingly grasping for gotchas, was reduced to questioning Kennedy about baby clothing merchandise.

But his positions and the organizations he’s aligned himself with are very mainstream America.” But now, RFK has been fully ostracized from the Democratic Party. Democrats loathe him, in part, because he’s up to serve in President Donald Trump’s second administration,

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Alexandra Sifferlin, a health and science editor for Times Opinion, hosted an online conversation on Wednesday with the Opinion columnist Zeynep Tufekci and the Opinion writers David Wallace-Wells and Jessica Grose about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s first of two confirmation hearings for secretary of health and human services.

In his first Senate confirmation hearing to be secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeated claims we have written about before on vaccines and chronic disease.

Kennedy Jr. about his commitment to aiding rural hospitals during Kennedy’s confirmation hearing, it was one of the rare moments when both a Republican senator and President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services appeared to be making sense.

Mr. Kennedy appears to have most Republicans behind him as he seeks the job of health secretary, though he couldn’t escape his past stances on vaccines and abortion.

GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy said he was "struggling" with Kennedy's nomination for health and human services secretary after repeatedly challenging his views on vaccines.

RFK. Jr. was grilled by lawmakers in his confirmation hearing to serve as President Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services. Kathleen Sebelius, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services under Barack Obama,

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Jack Schlossberg was born to Caroline Kennedy, President John F. Kennedy's only surviving child, and Edwin Schlossberg in 1993. He passed the New York State Bar exam in 2023 and has been involved in democratic politics.