US President Donald Trump on Thursday threw his support behind his controversial health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., after he was grilled in Congress over decisions to fire scientists and overhaul the nation's vaccine policies.

"He's a very good person, and he means very well, and he's got some little different ideas," Trump said at a White House dinner with tech industry executives.

The three-hour grilling, which often erupted into shouting matches, came a week after the Trump administration's ousting of Sue Monarez, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which plunged the nation's premier public health agency into turmoil.

In his opening remarks, Kennedy tore into the CDC's actions during the Covid pandemic, accusing it of failing "miserably" with "d

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