Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday the Food and Drug Administration should change the label on abortion drug mifepristone and conduct a top-to-bottom review of the pill after a new study showed the risks of serious side effects are greater than previously thought.

Questions and remarks from Republican members of the committee were generally supportive. Sen. Rand Paul, MD (R-Ky.), applauded cancellations of grants that, he joked, studied lonely rats and pregnancy prevention for teenage transgender boys.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s congressional hearing featured numerous statements from the secretary of HHS, including denouncing claims of cutting down the HHS and the National Institutes of Health.

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is testifying on Wednesday morning before the House Appropriations Committee about the 2026 budget.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy wanted an assurance from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. before he would vote to put him in charge of the nation’s $1.7 trillion health department. Kennedy’s history of promoting conspiracy theories or misspeaking about vaccines alarmed Cassidy, he said during a confirmation hearing earlier this year.

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According to MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did himself no favors on Wednesday when he was grilled by members of Congress in televised hearings on his department's budget.

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