Posted on 09/04/2025 1:59:16 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Summary
WASHINGTON, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Democrats and Republicans pushed U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's Jr. on his recent vaccine policies and their stark contrast to President Donald Trump's successful first-term pandemic initiative to speed vaccine development during a combative three-hour Senate hearing on Thursday.
Half a dozen heated exchanges focused on the details of his decision to fire Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez, who had started the job with Kennedy's support only a month earlier.
Republican U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana praised Trump for having accelerated the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in 2020.
His line of questioning - mirrored by two other members of his and Trump's party - underscored the tightrope Republicans critical of Kennedy needed to walk in order to push back against his vaccine policies without criticizing the president.
Cassidy, a former physician, asked Kennedy during the Senate Finance Committee hearing if he agreed with him that Trump deserved a Nobel Peace Prize for the COVID vaccine initiative, known as Operation Warp Speed. Kennedy said he did.
Why then had Kennedy said the vaccines killed more people than COVID? Cassidy asked. Kennedy denied making the statement, would not agree that the vaccines saved lives, and in a later exchange acknowledged the shots prevented deaths but not how many.
COVID vaccines in the first year of their use saved some 14.4 million lives globally, according to a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal.
Kennedy has also canceled $500 million...
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Fauci and Birx lied, people died.
And almost everyone learned from this experience, except Cassidy apparently.
Cassidy is p0wn3d by Big Pharma.
He needs to go.
He’s a dead duck in 26.
“Trump just did what the “experts” recommended.
Fauci and Birx lied, people died.”
Correct. He took advice from advisors trained in their field, which is what a president is expected to do.
And they let him down terribly. They became politicized to get him out of office, and they didn’t care how many had to die to achieve it.
The whole thing was a power play. People lost their jobs, businesses...contact with relatives.
What I do see for the future...All schooling will be on line and attendance will be required only one day a week.
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