Colorado U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet tangled with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over vaccines and recent uncertainty over federal guidance for parents — at one point screaming at each other — during a Senate committee hearing Thursday.
Kennedy was called to the Senate Finance Committee to talk about his plans to “Make America Healthy Again,” but he soon faced questions about the turmoil at federal health agencies . The Trump administration official said Centers for Disease Control and Prevention leaders who left the agency last week deserved to be fired.
During his time for questions, Bennet, a Democrat, called attention to Kennedy’s appointments to a CDC vaccine advisory panel, many of whom have criticized vaccines and spread misinformation. Kennedy himself is known as a va