Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. turned the tables on Democrats on Thursday during a fiery Senate hearing in the wake of the recent firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez.
As the hearing commenced, Democrats held a rally outside the Capitol, demanding that he resign his post.
But inside, they struggled to land a punch.
After Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) almost hysterically claimed that Kennedy was putting children in danger, Kennedy called out the Senator for doing nothing to prevent the rise of chronic disease in American children.
Kennedy delivered straightforward answers — and, at one point, demanded that they answer his questions. When Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) objected to Kennedy firing the government’s panel of vaccine experts, Kennedy noted “and you wer