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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Ping!..................
Another essentially dishonest statement (I like that line). Congress and/or HHS could have done that at any time.
Like Rubio, Scott Bessent.
Right women like Tulsi and Noem.
Trump learned a few things his first time around.
“What has changed in the last few years is that we now have very clear evidence from the US that shingles rates did not increase any faster after the vaccine was introduced and if anything, have somewhat levelled off in recent years”
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240229-why-dont-some-countries-vaccinate-against-chickenpox
“There’s no such thing as Republican children or Democratic children. There’s just kids, and we should all be concerned with them”
The purple-haired bitch or witch forgot her broomstick don’t ya think?
Congress has an incentive not to solve problems. By just identifying problems without really solving them, you get 20 years of campaign contributions from both sides of the issue.
I am so thankful for this guy.
He is absolutely right on the Alzheimers stuff. Just the experiences I had dealing with Mayo Clinic told me that we were never gonna get a cure with current Alzheimers research. They showed absolutely NO INTEREST in examining facts that didn’t fit their narrative. They showed no integrity in reporting true facts to the FDA or anybody else. They all know, for instance, that the heavy metal gadolinium stays in the body for longer than the 24 hrs (72 hours max, and that only for people with severe kidney disease) as was given as a reason to approve gadolinium-based contrast agents for MRI’s. When they were shown proof that it stayed in my husband for at least 6 weeks the Mayo doctors totally ignored it, and even the doctor at the Riordan Clinic in Wichita told us it was expected for there to be gadolinium in his system 6 weeks after an MRI. They ALL know it, but nobody cares to research the effect of that heavy metal on patients who were told it was safe.
Every piece of data was discarded if it didn’t fit the whole “amyloid causes everything bad” mantra. I read that a researcher who studies MS did a study on the effect of amyloid proteins on MS and was SHOCKED to find that amyloid actually HELPS PREVENT MS. And I knew early on as I was researching regarding my husband’s dementia that there are tons of people who have high amyloid levels but do not have dementia; any honest scientific analysis would conclude that it is not the amyloid that is causing the dementia then; perhaps explore whether something that causes the amyloid can also cause dementia in some cases. Now it is known that the study which all the “amyloid causes everything” “science” was based on was a very flawed study.
I suspect that if/when we ever get to the bottom of this disease it will be the holistic “quacks” that the “scientific community” so disdains who will be vindicated, not big pharma and big science. And it will be because the people who claim to believe in science actually don’t practice even the most basic precepts of it. That’s what I observed from my experiences at Mayo Clinic.
If it is cheap and effective they don’t want to hear about it.
That was why the Ivermectin was ridiculed because it was dirt cheap and it worked. Even the Chinese doctors said it worked.
I read a science fiction short story decades ago as a teenager, by Isaac Asimov about a future where ‘science’ and ‘research’ could only come from approved and licensed sources. Independent and garage research was forbidden and would be ignored, not allowed to be published and the government was trying their damnedest to stamp it out.
I thought it was silly then.
Looks like we’re here now.......................
I still think that all involved in the NIH, CDC, and FDA suppression and libel against Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine need to be prosecuted and imprisoned. The “scientific community” needs to answer for the bastardization of their field, which used a study that compared other treatment outcomes to the outcome when you give end-stage/terminal patients toxic doses of a drug otherwise known to be safe and effective... to say that the drug is dangerous and should be outlawed. The only people who were allowed to be given HCQ (which was good for early treatment) were people who were already hospitalized because the illness had spread to whole systems.
That study was criminal, and the people who did it and who made decisions based on it even though they KNEW it was deeply, deeply flawed need to be treated as criminals.
Fauci and his coterie of criminals....................
RFK Jr is spot on on health. Just don’t let him touch anything else. Hopefully Ted is turning in his grave
Impressive.
The Dead Past, perchance?
That's rich.
The democrats politicize children for absolutely EVERYTHING they cram through in their destroy America agenda.
Go Kennedy!!!!
(Whoever thought I'd see the day when I'm rooting for a Kennedy? And yet, I'm finding SENATOR Kennedy from LA is my favorite Senator)
And all democrats have done is proved how inept they are at holding political office and incapable of doing anything positive or good.
I had no idea about the link between the chicken pox vaccination and shingles
As has happened over and over in recent history.
The natural health community has been right about the overuse of antibiotics, the importance of gut bacteria, the need for vitamin D for the body, the importance of calcium for kidney stones (observed through personal family experiences), the superiority of breastfeeding over formula, and on and on.....
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