After opening statements the first Senator RFK called out was Sen. Murray. She accused him of denying care to one of her constituents— but when RFK offered to fix it on the spot, she refused. A clear sign it was never about the constituent. Sen. Murray: “One of my... constituents, her name is Natalie Phelps… she has been fighting aggressive stage four colorectal cancer for nearly five years now.” “Her best hope now is a clinical trial she's participating in at the NIH Clinical Center. She flew out to NIH a few weeks ago for her first appointment, and her care team there wanted her to come back in four weeks to start treatment.” RFK: “If you contact my office tomorrow, I'll look specifically into that.” Sen. Murray: “That is not acceptable.” RFK: “You asked me about a specific case that I wanna help with.” “I don't think that should happen to anybody.” “You don't care about Natalie, I've offered to help her.”show more

RFK Jr. just lit up Senate Democrats. In his second congressional hearing of the day, he didn’t hold anything back. “I’m gonna tell the truth about everything we know and we don’t know about vaccines.” Thread🧵

RFK Jr. opened his second hearing saying he’s confident President Trump will work with Democrats to pass legislation backing his executive order to lower prescription drug prices. “I know how determined President Trump is for us to have the lowest drug prices in the world.” “I also know that he doesn't care how we get there. That's where he wants Americans to be.” “I know it's something that Sen. Sanders has been talking about for many years.” “I look forward to working with you on legislation so that we can get there.”

Then absolute chaos broke out during RFK Jr.’s opening statement. Protestors all over the room started screaming. Peaceful protest is a right—but this was a security failure. If one of them rushed RFK, nothing was stopping them. These were clearly paid activists, and whoever funds them could easily fund someone dangerous. No one besides Trump has a bigger target on their back. This can’t happen again.

RFK Jr. then revealed that some at HHS are deliberately withholding checks and funding for certain projects—hoping to sabotage the agency’s reputation. “I can tell you that within the agency, there were people who wanted to make the Trump administration look bad and there were checks held up that shouldn't have been.”

The next Senator RFK dismantled was Sen. Murphy, who tried blaming him for vaccine hesitancy in America. “Senator, if I advise you to swim in a lake and I knew there to be alligators, wouldn't you want me to tell you there were alligators in it?” “What I pledged before this committee during my confirmation is that I would tell the truth and that I would have radical transparency.” “I'm gonna tell the truth about everything we know and we don't know about vaccines.” “I am not gonna just tell people everything is safe and effective.” “The reason people have lost faith in this program is because they've been lied to by public officials year after year after year.” “By the way, I said at the hearing this morning that I was recommending the measles vaccine. Go look at the transcript.”

The hearing was meant to focus on RFK Jr.’s HHS budget proposal— but Democrats used most of it to attack him personally. Still, he got in key points on why he plans to cut the agency’s budget. “No agency head wants to reduce the size of their agency.” “I'd rather have as much money and power as I can possibly have.” “I recognize that President Trump and the OMB director have a a larger duty and a larger vision, which is we're spending $2 trillion a year that we don't have, and we're billing our children.” “That is a moral deficiency.” “Debt is a social determinant of health.”

In one of the only truly productive moments of today’s hearing, RFK Jr, Sen. Hawley, and Sen. Sanders found rare bipartisan agreement that drug companies shouldn’t get tax breaks for advertising. Sen. Hawley: “Today, I'm introducing legislation to repeal the tax deductibility of these advertisements.” “Can you support that?” RFK Jr: “I 100% support that.” “I bet Sen. Sanders will also support that.” Sen. Sanders: “Absolutely, I think it's time we ended that.”

RFK Jr. was given a moment to completely dismantle the mainstream media’s narrative about the autism database he created at HHS. “There's actually 90 disease databases at my agency.” “Almost every important disease has a registry.” “The registry is intended to help scientists research what causes the ideology of diseases and also what the cures are.” “It's entirely voluntary and patient privacy is protected.” “The data is digitalized and depersonalized so that people cannot find out who the patient is and patients have an absolute right to opt out of it.”

RFK Jr. closed the hearing by exposing Sen. Alsobrooks. She didn’t even know the NIH falls under HHS. RFK Jr: “Is it part of NIH?” Sen. Alsobrooks: “No, it’s actually part of your agency.” RFK Jr: “NIH is part of my agency Sen. Alsobrooks and you should know that.” Sen. Alsobrooks: “These are all of the things you seem unfamiliar with.” RFK Jr: “You're unfamiliar with my agency, and that the NIH and the CDC are part of HHS.”

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"colectoral" cancer huh? Maybe we should talk about why this young woman has colorectal cancer when that used to be an old people's disease and suddenly is common in young people. Interesting example

Patty is bought and paid for by special interests and she only represents Washington D.C. I am going to take her seat in 2028.

Senator Murray is conducting partisan political theater at the expense of one of her constituents. She doesn’t give a f*ck about her constituents. She is trying to score political points. Vote her out!!

@SenatorMurra apparently doesn't give a damn about her constituents and only wants to be a problem not actually seeking a solution. Her answer alone should scare away her constituents next election based on this exchange.