RFK Jr.’s testimony on measles outbreaks draws mixed responses | CNN Politics

The Health and Human Services secretary faced questions from two Senate committees today. • US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was back on the Hill for two hearings today. • He took questions from the Senate Finance Committee in the morning and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions in the afternoon. • The hearings came as the White House has taken tighter control of HHS’s activities, with officials discouraging Kennedy and his aides from publicly discussing their efforts to overhaul vaccine policies. Sen. Bill Cassidy, the Louisiana Republican who has clashed with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on vaccine rhetoric, said lawmakers’ focus on measles questions during a marathon run of health budget hearings was fair. Cassidy spoke to reporters after the seventh and final budget hearing of the past week, before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, which he chairs. “Any time children are dying from vaccine-preventable diseases [or] we have an increased incidence of reports, whatever the disease is, there should be focus,” Cassidy said. “We are a first-world country, and s