WASHINGTON >> Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced a withering barrage of questioning from a Senate committee on his vaccine policy and his record as President Donald Trump’s health secretary, responding at times with clear disdain for the senators, public health data and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which he oversees.

Appearing before the Senate Finance Committee today, Kennedy blamed the CDC for the number of American deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic, and said he did not trust the data that showed vaccines saved millions of lives in the United States and elsewhere during the pandemic. Kennedy also falsely asserted that there were no cuts to Medicaid in Trump’s domestic policy bill, and rejected bipartisan criticism that his actions were making it harder for people to obtain

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