GOP concern about RFK Junior does not shake Trump’s faith
On Thursday, a united Senate hearing on Health and Human Services released the Republican Support (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who was terrified in the public health world with the action to prevent vaccine access, approval and research.
However, despite the attempt to try some of the original GOP senators between President Trump and his health secretary, Trump continued to embrace Kennedy and he was reluctant to dissolve his “Make America Health” (MAA) alliance that helped him deliver him to the White House.
During a dinner with the country’s leading tech CEO on Thursday night, Trump said he heard “do very well” at the Kennedy hearing, though he did not see it.
Trump said of Kennedy, “This is not your standard talk, I’ll say.” “And it has a relationship with treatment and vaccines but if you look at what is happening in the world with health and look at this country about health, I like the fact that he is different.”
During the hearing on Thursday, Kennedy did not show any signs of supporting his most divided decisions. He offended his steps to expel the director of the Disease Control and Prevention Center (CDC) and imposed new restrictions on the Covid -19 vaccine qualifications in the face of members on both sides. And he also denied the questions that the senators were “stuffed up” by following the Republicans.
“Is this the question, Sen Cassidy? Or is it a speech?” Kennedy asked at one point after pressing by Senate’s Senate Health Committee Chairman Sen Bill Cassidy (R-La) on his support for Trump’s Operation Warp speed.
After the hearing, Trump’s allies said that the presence of Kennedy had given the kind of battle that the President praised.
Former Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon said during his “war room” Podcast, “Bobby Kennedy first came out of the fire, argued that the White House needs to be stronger in Kennedy’s defense.
“They are trying to separate Bobby Kennedy [the] The process of trying to dismiss him as the Secretary of the HHS, “Before adding it after the hearing, Bobby Kennedy did better than me. “
Kennedy was once a critical critic of the first Trump administration. He later postponed his own president’s campaign in 2021 and supported Trump in exchange for the country’s health agencies.
Kennedy describes this position as his dream act, though he has faced criticism from the skeptical conservatives of the great movement. Last month, he announced that he was not going to be a candidate for the President in 2021, promising Trump’s loyalty to the President’s view.
“The President has answered himself for my 20-year prayer that God Shobar will keep me in a position to finish the epidemic of chronic disease — and he will fix my party and I will fix the day I leave,” Kennedy said in a post on social platform x.
A source close to the White House argued that Kennedy was folded for some reason and was less likely to face significant heat from the President.
The source said, “I know how this news is now circulating, but the reason he is with him is the great agenda as a whole, and he is the most popular cabinet member, at least the most popular cabinet,” the source said.
“I think there are some tests and errors, but Trump chose him for this position the whole reason was to clean the house, and what he was doing was” adding the “formula.”
Surveys show that Kennedy is actually the most popular among Trump’s cabinet members, though the numbers are overall. A CBS News/Yugov survey found that 45 percent of Kennedy has a job approval rating and 55 percent of the rejection rating. From the beginning of August, a gallop survey showed Kennedy 42 percent favorable.
During the hearing on Thursday, the Senate Democrats mentioned the White House’s apparent prejudice towards Kennedy.
“I am not surprised that Stephen Miller has given you the crown of the cabinet. ‘
The Secretary is urged to resign or dismiss Democrats and Public Health groups.
A coalition of medical agencies and associations calls for his resignation on the day of hearing that recent FRACAs in the CDC are “the ultimate surprise of a word defined by repeated efforts to undermine science and public health.” Eleven of the 12 Democrats of the Senate Finance Committee made the same claim.
However, political analysts have noticed that it will take more than angry words from the dismissed employees or some unhappy GOP senators to suppress Trump.
Trump’s first administration’s health officer, Raymond James analyst Chris Machins, wrote in a note after hearing, “Although Secretary Kennedy’s Republican criticism is higher, he finally has one audience:” President Trump. “” We believe that RFK is in a more sure step than DC and investors are appreciated. “
And despite the turmoil, conservative voices say that it is still understandable to support Kennedy for Trump; His value is in his disruption. Kennedy has won on many conservatives who initially questioned his views on abortion and environmental activity.
At the Heritage Foundation, Je Richards, director of the Divos Center for Human Fluorring, said Trump saw very much to the administrative state in his first term. Now, the “traditional taid” maintenance has gone.
Richards said, “The term of this type of second Trump, I think he understands the problems better.” “And I think he has been recognized at Robert F. Kennedy Jr., both prudence and intention to accept the same force properly in the bureaucracy involved.”
According to Richards, if Kennedy is “faster than President Trump” in the vaccines, he should go faster than he should “, but it can cause excitement. But he thinks the secretary is still intentionally and carefully.
Richards said, “I think that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is steering the way is the middle ground,” Richards said. “It may seem controversial, just because the university is in the same weapon than the modest reforms he is doing. But I don’t think that the speed he is moving is at risk with President Trump.”
Brett Samuels contributed to reportingThe
