WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming will not join a leading Democrat’s call to oust the country’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a spokeswoman for the Senate’s second-ranking Republican said Friday.

At a hearing Thursday, Barrasso, a medical doctor and vaccine advocate, pointedly questioned the Health and Human Services secretary on vaccines and the recent shakeup at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an HHS agency.

Cowboy State Daily asked Barrasso’s office Friday whether he regretted his vote to confirm RFK Jr. in February and whether he now believes the secretary should be fired.

Laura Mengelkamp, a Barrasso spokeswoman, replied that the senator trusts President Donald Trump’s judgment in picking his cabinet.

Barrasso “has full confi

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