Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr got a tongue-lashing on Thursday during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing as Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA) brought up his much-ridiculed HHS video using aging rocker Kid Rock to promote better health.
According to the fuming Sanchez, who repeatedly had to speak over the Trump appointee, the controversial secretary has been wasting money while not doing his job warning the public about serious health issues like the growing measles outbreak.
Stating as a mother she has been “horrified” by his stewardship, she added, “Stopping the spread of communicable diseases is one of HHS's primary responsibilities. And a strong public messaging campaign on the importance of vaccines could have stopped this surge of measles cases as it has in past outbreaks. I was appalled to learn the CDC suspended public-health messaging on vaccines last February. It ended a successful flu vaccine campaign as well.”
“You are making terrible decisions that impact real lives,” she accused. “One thing I find incredible is that, you suspended this pro-vaccine messaging campaign, but somehow you are spending taxpayer dollars to drink milk shirtless in a hot tub with Kid Rock and somehow you think that's a better public health message than informing the public about the importance of vaccines?”
She was then cut off by the committee chair.