Posted on 05/14/2025 6:18:51 PM PDT by Red Badger
This story originally appeared on vigilantfox.com and was republished with permission.
RFK Jr. just walked into Congress and took down his biggest critics in one fell swoop.
This was a masterclass.
A dentist congressman came out swinging on fluoride. By the time Kennedy finished, he realized he picked the wrong fight.
Then, a Democrat tried to accuse Kennedy of politicizing children’s health—but he got emotional, broke through the noise, and completely flipped the script on her.
If you watch one thing today, make it this. Kennedy just took the MAHA agenda to the next level.
Right out of the gate in his first major congressional hearing as HHS Secretary, Kennedy laid out a sweeping plan to reshape HHS from the ground up.
Here’s what’s on deck:
Ending “gain-of-function experiments and research based upon radical gender ideology”
A full-scale crackdown on fentanyl and drug addiction
$94 billion toward better food, fitness, and childcare
FDA action to remove toxic chemicals from the food supply
Slashing wasteful NIH projects
Merging mental health and addiction programs for faster, better care
Giving local leaders more power to fix problems in their own communities
A major upgrade to Head Start, the early education program for low-income children
“We intend to make the Trump HHS not just the most effective, but also the most compassionate in U.S. history,” Kennedy said.
VIDEO AT LINK.....................
Then came a tense back-and-forth with Democrat Rep. Rosa DeLauro, who tried to pin him down on tobacco prevention funding. Kennedy didn’t just answer—he flipped the entire narrative.
DeLauro asked, “Do you commit to following the law, again, fully obligating those funds so that we can help adults who want to quit using tobacco and prevent teens from becoming addicted?”
Kennedy fired back: “Allow me to answer that by pointing out the absolute cataclysmic disorganization of this agency. Under your oversight, for 40 years, we had nine separate offices of Women’s Health.”
And he didn’t stop there.
“When we consolidate them, the Democrats say we’re eliminating them. We’re not. We’re still appropriating the 3.7 billion, but we’re not keeping all nine. We had eight separate offices for minority health. We eliminated one. We had 27 HIV offices.”
DeLauro tried to interrupt—“Okay, let me just. I’m going to—”
But Kennedy kept rolling: “We had 59 behavioral health programs.”
At that point, DeLauro backed off: “I’m well over time.”
VIDEO AT LINK.....................
One of the most jaw-dropping moments came when Rep. Mike Simpson, a dentist, tried to challenge Kennedy on fluoride—and instantly regretted it.
“We better put a lot more money into dental education because we’re going to need a whole lot more dentists [if we ban fluoride],” Simpson said.
The rebuttal was too easy for Kennedy.
“We now know that virtually all the benefit [from fluoride] is from topical, and we can get that through mouthwashes. We can get through fluoridated toothpastes.”
Then came the line that hit hard:
“The National Toxicity Program issued a report in August, a meta review of all the science that now exists on fluoride, and showed a direct inverse correlation between fluoride exposure dose and lower IQ.”
“Which is an issue that we all have to be concerned with. We want high IQ kids right now,” Kennedy added.
VIDEO AT LINK.....................
Later, Rep. Steny Hoyer demanded answers on HHS budget cuts—but Kennedy was ready with numbers and a blunt dose of reality.
“We’re spending $2 trillion a year that we don’t have!”
He followed up: “When you’re spending $2 trillion more than you have, you have to make cuts.”
Hoyer pressed again. Kennedy stayed firm.
“The cuts that were done were cuts that were to duplication, to redundancy, to streamlining,” he said. “We increased our workforce 70% in four years. So we were going back to the 2019 levels.”
VIDEO AT LINK.....................
Then came a moment of visible deflation from Rep. Mark Pocan, who tried—repeatedly—to get Kennedy to endorse vaccines.
“If you had a child today, would you vaccinate that child for measles?” Pocan asked.
Kennedy didn’t bite.
“What I would say is my opinions about vaccines are irrelevant,” he said. “I think what we’re going to try to do is to lay out the pros and cons, the risks and benefits accurately as we understand them.”
Pocan pressed again: “Can you talk about chickenpox?”
Kennedy exposed a reality Pocan didn’t want to hear:
“Again, I don’t want to give advice. I can tell you in Europe, they don’t use the chickenpox vaccine specifically because the preclinical trial shows that when you inoculate the population for chickenpox, you get shingles in older people, which is more dangerous.”
Desperate for something, Pocan asked, “Polio?”
“Again, I don’t want to be giving advice,” Kennedy replied.
Pocan backed off with a clear look of disappointment: “That’s fair. No, that’s fair. Like I said, I was not doing it as a gotcha…”
One of the most shocking revelations came when Kennedy pointed to corruption inside NIH as the reason we still don’t have a cure for Alzheimer’s.
“For 20 years, because of utter corruption and fraud, we were directing Alzheimer’s research to one hypothesis, and any other hypothesis was shut down,” he said.
“We should have the cure for Alzheimer’s today. We don’t have it PURELY because of corruption at NIH. And we are going to have it quickly.”
Rep. Lois Frankel attacked Kennedy’s use of HHS funds, characterizing it as Elon Musk randomly plugging numbers into a computer to make decisions.
Kennedy fired back, taking offense at that false narrative.
“Everything that you said was essentially dishonest,” he told her.
VIDEO AT LINK.....................
Later, Kennedy clashed with Rep. DeLauro once more. This time, he let loose.
“Look at our children, they’re the sickest children in the world,” he said passionately.
Kennedy delivered a direct blow to DeLauro, noting he succeeded where she failed.
“Congresswoman DeLauro, you say that you’ve worked for 20 years on getting food dye out. Then give me credit!” he exclaimed. “I got it out in 100 days.”
He then closed with a call to unity:
“So, let’s work together and do something that we all believe in, which is have healthy kids in our country for God’s sake. There’s no such thing as Republican children or Democratic children. There’s just kids, and we should all be concerned with them.”
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Watch the full testimony below:
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Studies are often designed to fail.
I saw his stand on carbon capture devices and the danger that it poses, that he is opposed to.
And he’s right on that one as well.
Are there risks to transporting carbon dioxide in pipelines?
https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/are-there-risks-transporting-carbon-dioxide-pipelines
And besides, why waste the money and resources making carbon capture an industry when all anyone needs to do is plant more trees?
Graze more livestock on more land that’s not useful for growing crops.
I was listening to a rancher explain how cattle eat the grasses, “fertilize” the grasses, bring the 10 gallons of water they drank this morning all over the land where they “water” the grasses, and how this all stimulates the grasses to grow back richer, thicker, and to do so more vigorously. And all during this stimulated, fertilized, watered, vigorous growth activity the grasses ACTIVELY capture CO2 from the atmosphere and sequester it in the soil. He went on to say that grazing flocks and herds can even “nurse” land with sparse foliage into greener condition, spurring new starts, and enriching existing plants, which makes land that wasn’t helping much at all with carbon sequestration more and more effective.
SEQUESTER CO2! EAT MORE BEEF!
Democrats never actually ‘fix’ anything. They don’t want to.
If they actually fixed all the problems, then they wouldn’t be needed any more.
Same with many so-called Republicans.
They play the game just as well.
That is why any ‘fixes’ the come up with don’t work, but in reality create more problems that need fixing.................
That’s it!.......................
And so the behemoth grows.
The whites never realized it but absolutely destroyed the Midwest when they slaughtered those vast herds of bison, which did the same thing.
Interesting....I don't recall being vaccinated for chickenpox as a kid, which was probably the reason I caught the pox when I was in the Army.
I, along with many other kids, got chicken pox in the third grade.
Aside from the tiny blisters itching as they healed, it wasn’t that bad. Could still play outside, by myself of course, and it was Springtime, so nice weather.
Missed 1 week of school and it was over.
Haven’t had shingles, though, and at 70 years old doesn’t seem likely...................
Welcome to the goldfish bowl...
Yep, I really enjoyed that story................
I’m adding RFK to the list of another pleasant surprise cabinet member, Duffy, Marco, Zeldin, Tulsi and others are living up to expectations.
Works for me!
They create their own job security.
i had heard some interviews of RFK Jr and Tulsi before the elections and they are keeping their promises.
I’m grateful they haven’t caved on what they said they planned to do. So many people make promises and then abdicate.
Until now................
Yeah.
:)
Thanks for the transcript. RFK really struggling with his voice. https://www.newsweek.com/rfk-jr-voice-condition-spasmodic-dysphonia-vocal-2072341
We do not hate Congress enough.
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