US EditionRFK Jr. grilled on health department funding cuts during his 3rd congressional hearing this month
- On May 20, 2025, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Testified before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee in Washington regarding the department's fiscal 2026 budget proposal and reorganization plans.
- Kennedy faced scrutiny due to planned budget cuts exceeding 25%, controversial staff reductions, and delayed grant funding amid a court-issued gag order limiting his disclosures.
- Senators from both parties, including Susan Collins and Patty Murray, questioned Kennedy on the impact of cuts to biomedical research, public health programs, and personnel at agencies such as CDC and NIH.
- Kennedy defended the $94 billion budget by stating, "We intend to do a lot more with less," while critics warned that cutting medical research compromises future health outcomes and leaves Americans sicker.
- The testimony highlighted deep partisan divisions and raised concerns that the proposed budget and restructuring could hinder critical health programs and biomedical research funding.
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RFK Jr. has embarked on policies that frighteningly resemble those of eugenicists: They seek to identify and disempower the underprivileged, they serve anti-immigrant and racist sentiment, and they embrace pseudoscience. Charles Fremont Dight has been reincarnated in the worm-gnawed brain of Bobby Kennedy, Jr. A medical professor at the University of Minnesota, Dight hoped to rid […] The post Bobby Kennedy Jr. Makes Eugenics Great Again at Healt…
MAHA Is A Movement Of Government Overreach
By Matthew Williams, Mises Wire | May 20, 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has launched a health crusade under the banner “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA). Yet his recent pronouncements ring disturbingly like: “I’m the government, and I’m here to help.” Kennedy’s agenda for national well-being—much of which has already been supported via executive order—betrays a proclivity for top-down intervention rather than genuine reform. A former environmenta…
RFK Jr. Fraying: Berates Senator Instead Of Answering Simple Budget Cut Questions
I would love to say that it feels like the era of RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary is starting to come to an end, but that would be optimistic in the extreme. Still, I think we’re starting to see the edges fray a bit and it’s no surprise as to why. Kennedy has overseen budget, grant, and staffing cuts at HHS in the midst of a measles outbreak that is threatening America’s elimination status for the disease, has prattled on about having the source of aut…
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