RFK Jr. defends HHS overhaul when Democrats denounced the “war against science”.

The Health Minister Robert F. Kennedy Jr. mediated a defiant defense on his drastic revision of the federal health authorities on Wednesday when the house democrats accused him of violating the law by giving entire divisions and shortened the agent acquired by the Congress for Medical Research.

“We do not hold any money back for life -saving research!” Mr. Kennedy thundered at representative Rosa Delauro from Connecticut, the top democrat of the House Appropriations Committee, who taught him about the language of the constitution and the authority of the handbag.

Ms. Delauro looked disgusted. “Incredible,” she said, shook her head. “Incredible.”

The back and forth with Ms. Delauro was only one of a number of fiery exchange between democratic legislators and Mr. Kennedy during his first appearance on the Capitol Hill since his health secretary.

The purpose of the hearing on Wednesday was that Mr. Kennedy answered questions about President Trump’s health budget for the next financial year. But instead, the Democrats focused on the mass decisions and cuts that Mr. Kennedy has already done, which they condemned as part of the “war war against science”.

Mr. Trump has only published the comprehensive outline of his budget plan, which the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention call for deep cuts. In his opening speeches to the House Committee, Mr. Kennedy said that according to a copy of his remarks, the cuts would save money “without the effects on critical services”.

The Budget blueprint “recognizes the fiscal challenges of our country today and the need to update and redirect our investments in order to meet the needs of a rapidly changing world.”

However, a remake of the Ministry of Health is already in good action and was partly developed by Elon Musk and his team from the Department of Government Efficiency. It includes cutting 20,000 jobs-a quarter of health work. It also collapses entire agencies, including those who devote themselves to the treatment of mental health and addiction and emergency provision, into a new, poorly defined “administration for a healthy America”.

The Republicans of the house largely praised Mr. Kennedy, but their questions showed that they too were somewhat uncomfortable with his changes. Some asked about projects in their districts. The representative Chuck Fleischmann, a Republican from Tennessee who represents candy manufacturers, was worried that Mr. Kennedy’s plan to free food supply to certain dyes on a petroleum basis would cost his money.

The representative Stephanie Bice, Republican of Oklahoma, asked Mr. Kennedy to protect a medical research foundation in her district. The representative of Riley Moore, Republican of West Virginia, was relieved that Mr. Kennedy had reversed the shots of more than 100 employees with the National Institute for Security and Health of Labor Duts, which contributes to protecting carbonian -like lung diseases.

Democrats have peppered the health secretary with questions about a number of other matters, including the treatment of a measles epidemic that killed two children in West texas, his views of abortion, his recovery from heroin addiction and the question of whether he vaccinates his own children against measles, chickenpox or polio, and confronted with this decision with this decision.

Mr. Kennedy ducked the question and insisted that his own views did not play a role.

The health secretary will also appear on Wednesday afternoon before the Senate Health Committee, whose Republican Chairman will ask him to explain to the Americans how his reforms “make their lives easier and not more difficult”.

The chairman, Senator Bill Cassidy from Louisiana, is expected to call Mr. Kennedy after moving out of his prepared comments “a clearly defined plan or goal”. Mr. Cassidy voted to confirm Mr. Kennedy despite intensive concerns about his views on vaccines.

Mr. Cassidy asked Mr. Kennedy to testify the job cuts in the Ministry of Health last month, but the secretary did not appear.

“Much of the conversation about the HHS agenda was determined by anonymous sources in the media and individuals with bias against the president,” said Mr. Cassidy’s comments. “The Americans need direct security from the administration, from them, Mr. Secretary that their reforms make their lives easier and not more difficult.”

That can be a large order. A survey recently from KFF, an impartial research organization, showed that the majority of the public against personnel and expenses among the country’s health authorities were rejected against state cuts. A majority of the Americans said that the Trump administration “ruthlessly reduced programs and employees, including some that are necessary for the functioning of agencies”.

In the expectation of the hearing, Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont, the rendered member of the Health Committee, published a report on Tuesday, in which Mr. Trump made an “unprecedented, illegal and outrageous attack on science and scientists”. The report, for example, showed that Mr. Trump lowered cancer research in the first three months of this year by 31 percent compared to the same period in the previous year.

“Trump’s war against science is an attack against someone who has ever loved someone with cancer,” said Mr. Sanders in an explanation. “The American people do not want us to give cancer research to give more tax breaks for billionaires.”

Mr. Kennedy, one of the country’s loudest vaccine skeptics, insisted on Wednesday morning to claim the members of the country that he had better exerted the current measles outbreak than his colleagues in other nations. The outbreak that started in West Texas has killed two non -vaccinated children and an adult and, according to CDC, made more than 1,000 people in 30 states in 30 states

Mr. Kennedy has only offered a loud vaccination. He recognized that vaccines are an effective way to prevent measles from spreading. But he insisted that the choice for vaccination should be voluntary.

Instead, he promoted the treatment of the disease after an infection with alternative therapies, including liver oil that contains vitamin A – a remedy from which the doctors suffered some children who have taken too much. Ms. Delauro accused him of “promoting quacks”.

During the house negotiation, Mr. Kennedy did not give a quarter and exchanged barbs with the legislators in a way that is unusual for every witness, let alone that he comes to the congress to ask for money to direct his agency.

“I do not know whether they understand this or whether they only have the democratic topics,” said Kennedy to represent Josh Harder, the Democrat of California, who asked for cuts against Medicaid.

Mr. Kennedy also joined the representative Bonnie Watson Coleman, a democrat from New Jersey, who asked about cuts in heating programs for home atheils. “My time has expired,” he said sharply after she cut off his answer.

Ms. Watson Coleman shot back: “And also your legitimacy.”

But by far the most passionate democrat was Ms. Delauro, who survived ovarian cancer almost four decades ago and has been working in the congress for 34 years. After the hearing, she became emotional when she spoke about how research research, which was financed by the National Institutes of Health, had most likely saved her life.

“I’m here,” said Ms. Delauro and fought back against tears, “because of the grace of God and biomedical research.”