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Lawmakers press HHS on leadership, vaccine claims and SNAP/Medicaid cuts during hearing
Summary
Members criticized HHS leadership and raised concerns about vaccine misinformation, staff departures, hotline closures and potential effects of proposed SNAP and Medicaid cuts on children's access to food and health services.
Several House members used the Oversight and Reform subcommittee hearing to press acting Assistant Secretary for Health Dorothy Fink about Department of Health and Human Services leadership and public messaging, including questions about Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s associations and statements about vaccines.
Representative (unnamed in transcript) displayed flight logs and cited media interviews referencing Secretary Kennedy’s social contacts; Representative Krishnamoorthi and others said they would seek to interview the secretary under oath about those relationships. Fink declined to address those items in detail and repeatedly redirected to the hearing’s stated subject: childhood chronic disease and nutrition. “I would really love to talk about…
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