Two committees will question President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services this week in two of the most anticipated confirmation hearings for the Cabinet.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — a former Democratic presidential hopeful turned Trump supporter — will appear before the Finance and the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committees.
Lawmakers will grill the nominee on his view about vaccines and on other public health and environmental issues that are part of the president’s Make America Healthy Again campaign.
Kennedy was once a darling of the environmental community, fighting to clean up waterways, end mountaintop removal mining and go after polluters. The son of Democrat Robert F. Kennedy, the former attorney general who was assassinated in 1968, is now a darling of the right.
