Senator Hassan Slams RFK Jr. as a Dangerous Rubber Stamp for Donald Trump

“When was it that you decided to sell out the values you’ve had your whole life in order to be given power by President Trump?”

WASHINGTON – At a Senate Finance Committee hearing today, U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) slammed President Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for being “willing to sacrifice your values, your knowledge, if President Trump tells you to do that,” specifically highlighting Mr. Kennedy’s flip-flopping on issues such as reproductive freedom.

Click here to watch Senator Hassan question RFK Jr. on his refusal to put the health and well-being of the American people above his allegiance to Donald Trump.

Senator Hassan began by highlighting Mr. Kennedy’s record of spreading dangerous vaccine misinformation. Then, Senator Hassan highlighted his rapidly shifting positions on the right for women to make their own reproductive health care decisions. “Mr. Kennedy…You have clearly stated in the past that bodily autonomy is one of your core values. The question is do you stand for that value or not? When was it that you decided to sell out the values you’ve had your whole life in order to be given power by President Trump?” said Senator Hassan when pressing him during the confirmation hearing today on his shifting positions.

“What you’re telling us is if President Trump orders you to take action to make it harder for women to get direly needed health care, you’ll follow his order. If Mr. Trump, as he did yesterday, orders a halt on Medicaid payments that are essential for taking care of people with disabilities all around this country, you’re going to follow that order. Because you are willing to sacrifice your values, your knowledge, if President Trump tells you to do that. That to me is unacceptable in a Secretary of Health and Human Services,” Senator Hassan concluded.

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