Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic, is on track to become the top US health official after a Senate committee voted along party lines to approve his nomination. The Senate finance committee voted 14 to 13 in favor of his confirmation to run the Department of Health and Human Services. His nomination will now go to a full senate vote.
Vaccine sceptic Robert F Kennedy Jr is on track to be confirmed as the top US health official after a Senate committee voted along party lines to approve his nomination. The Senate finance committee on Tuesday voted 14 to 13 in favour of his confirmation to run the Department of Health and Human Services, with all Republicans supporting Kennedy and all Democrats voting against. His nomination will go to a full senate vote in the coming days.
Kennedy’s nomination to run the sprawling health department, which has a budget of $1.9tn and oversees 13 divisions and agencies including medicines regulator the Food and Drug Administration, has prompted concern from public health officials and pharmaceutical industry insiders owing to his vaccine scepticism and contentious views on a number of health issues. In the minutes following the vote, the XBI ETF index of biotech stocks dropped nearly two per cent.
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