At a Senate health committee hearing, Dr. Susan Monarez painted a picture of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a man wedded to his own ideology and uninterested in government scientists.
Senator Bill Cassidy, a Republican physician and vaccine proponent who is facing a primary challenge from the right, has a fraught relationship with the health secretary.
Senator Bill Cassidy will be in the spotlight on Wednesday, when Dr. Susan Monarez will appear before his committee at his invitation to tell her story publicly for the first time.
A three-hour hearing before the Senate Finance Committee revealed that the health secretary was on uncertain ground even with some Republicans who voted to confirm him.
Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. at Thursday’s hearing, which descended into a free-for-all, in part over Mr. Kennedy’s approach to vaccination, the turmoil at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and especially his decision last week to fire Susan Monarez, the C.D.C. director.
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