Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not having it with the Democrats’ lies. He’s fighting back with everything he has.
And RFK and Senate Democrats trade brutal punches during a high-stakes hearing.
In a no-holds-barred Senate Finance Committee hearing on Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. clashed with Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., over the future of American health policy. The sparks flew as Wyden launched into a blistering attack, claiming Kennedy’s reforms endanger kids and prioritize wild ideas over solid expertise.
Kennedy, unflinching under the spotlight, turned the tables on the long-time senator, exposing decades of inaction on skyrocketing health crises. This confrontation highlights the deep divide between establishment politicians and the Trump team’s push to overhaul a broken system that’s left Americans sicker than ever.
Wyden didn’t hold back, blasting Kennedy for sidelining experts in favor of what he called fringe theories. “This is about kids being pushed into harm’s way by reckless and repeated decisions to get scientists and doctors out of the way and allow conspiracy theories to dictate this country’s health policy,” Wyden said.
He pressed further, demanding accountability for potential fallout. “I don’t see any evidence that you have any regrets about anything you’ve done or plans to change it. And my last comment is, I hope that you will tell the American people how many preventable child deaths are an acceptable sacrifice for enacting an agenda that I think is fundamentally cruel and defies common sense. Thank you, Mr. Chairman,” Wyden stated.
Kennedy wasn’t about to let that slide without a response. “Do I get a reply?” he said. “Senator you’ve sat in that chair how long? 20-25 years while the chronic disease of our children went up to 76%. And you said nothing.”
He hammered home the failures of past leadership. “You never asked the question why it’s happening. Why is this happening? Today, for the first time in 20 years, we’ve learned that infant mortality has increased in our country. It’s not because I came in here. It’s because of what happened during the Biden administration that we’re going to end,” he added.
Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, stepped in to keep things moving, allowing Wyden a quick follow-up despite his mic staying off. “We’re going to proceed,” Crapo stated. “I gave Senator Wyden as ranking member some leeway there, but we’re gonna stick to the five minutes.”
This dust-up follows a wave of backlash against Kennedy, including a letter from over 1,000 current and former HHS staffers demanding his ouster just a day earlier. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., joined the chorus, echoing calls for resignation amid uproar over Kennedy’s shake-up at the CDC, where he axed former director Susan Monarez.
The letter pulled no punches, slamming Kennedy’s approach as a threat to public safety. “We believe health policy should be based in strong, evidence-based principles rather than partisan politics. But under Secretary Kennedy’s leadership, HHS policies are placing the health of all Americans at risk, regardless of their politics,” the letter said.
But this isn’t about protecting kids; it’s about defending a bloated bureaucracy that’s failed families for years. Kennedy’s critics in Washington are freaking out because he’s exposing the cozy ties between Big Pharma, junk food giants, and government agencies that have turned America into a nation dealing with sickness.
Under President Trump’s second term, Kennedy is spearheading the Make America Healthy Again initiative, a game-changing effort to tackle chronic illnesses head-on. Trump kicked it off with Executive Order 14212 in February 2025, creating the MAHA Commission chaired by Kennedy himself, pulling in top officials from USDA, FDA, NIH, CDC, and more to smash through red tape and prioritize real prevention.
One of the first big wins? Banning eight major artificial dyes from the food supply, a move Trump praised at a rally, crediting Kennedy for getting tough on toxins that harm kids’ brains and bodies. This is about cleaning up the poison in our groceries and making sure families can afford nutritious options without corporate greed standing in the way.
The commission’s mission starts with childhood chronic diseases, delivering a full assessment in 100 days on causes like overmedication, harmful food additives, and environmental toxins. By August, they’ll roll out a strategy to ditch bad policies and roll in solutions that empower parents and doctors, not drug pushers.
Kennedy’s also revamping medical training, mandating nutrition education from pre-med through residencies so future docs focus on food as medicine instead of just pills.
Trump’s letting Kennedy go all out on this, as promised, targeting corruption in federal health agencies and promoting exercise, safer meds, and protections against Big Pharma’s overreach.
In the end, this hearing wasn’t a setback—it’s proof the old guard is terrified of real change. With MAHA in full swing, America’s on track to ditch the sickness economy and build a stronger, healthier nation for our kids and grandkids.
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