George Caldwell
After Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s A tense three -hour interrogation regarding his nomination to become the secretary of the Health and Human Services Department, Republican and Democratic senators He remained sharply divided into a health activist, who is currently a significant part of the coalition of President Donald Trump.
Senator Ron Promote, D-On., Emerged from the trial to tell the press that after hours of Kennedy’s grill on his own health policy proposals, He did not think that he was honestly nominated with the Senate of the Finance Committee.
“When we tried to get out of some details, such as many of his vaccination statements with his few statements about the vaccine, and we asked him to clarify this-I mean how he was lying?” – said the legislator from Oregon.
🚨sen. Ron Update Published:
“I am convinced that this nominee is not even completely clear about the difference between Medicare and Medicaid.” pic.twitter.com/LS4QAWFLRK
– Daily Caller (@Dailycaller) January 29, 2025
Asked by the CNN reporter if he thinks some democratic senators Vote to confirm Kennedy – who was a democrat all his life until he became independent in October 2023 – he said that he did not think so.
“I don’t see it. I think he was so unbelievable and unprepared, I do not believe that all the democrats in the committee will support him, “he said.
But the Republicans had their own bone to choose with the democrats.
Senator Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Who was one of Kennedy’s heaviest defenders in the commission, said Daily Signal that he was disappointed in the harsh questioning of the HHS nominated democrats.
“It’s very disappointing, seeing hostility from the Democrats,” said Johnson.
“I understand what is [Kennedy’s] Heart, what he wants to achieve. It’s completely impartial and it is so disappointing. This is a completely impartial problem. You know how we do The address of the chronic disease? How do we find out what causes autism? American people want to know this. Regardless of whether they are democrats or republicans, they want to know it, ‘said Wisconsin Republican.
Johnson was almost as doubtful as the perspectives of the nominee receiving democratic voices in the Senate.
“It’s hard to say,” he said. “They fell with closed minds, it seemed to me that it seemed to me.”
.@Senronjohnson “Can we not meet as a nation? Don’t you have this fatigue anymore? “
Senator Ron Johnson praises RFK Jr. – Former Democrat, now independent – for postponing your political differences to solve the greatest health problems in America. pic.twitter.com/ma8i5z6efv
– Daily Signal (@daailysignal) January 29, 2025
Johnson also answered the accusations of Democrats that Kennedy would serve as a regular “seal” for the Trump program, suggesting instead that his relations with the president would cooperate.
“I think there is mutual respect between them,” Wisconsin legislator. “They are both intelligent people. Both can be conducted by science about what the truth is. They will be able to influence mutual opinions about things. “
Dream. Steve Daines, R-Mont., He was also an ally of Kennedy at the trial.
Daines told Daily Signal that he was impressed by Kennedy’s performance and disappointed with the opposition of Democrats.
“I thought he did it very, very well under the angry democrats attacking him mercilessly, often not even allowing him to speak. It is about hearing from the nominee, not about the eders of the senators, “he said, adding:” What got stuck to me, he said that HHS would be a golden standard of learning and based on data. We need more. Take partisan policy. “
As in the case of Johnson, Daines was asked if he thought Kennedy had won the voices of democratic senators with his performance at the trial, Daines chuckled and replied: “Probably not.”
The dissertation rates were felt in the building of the Dirksen Senate office, when many Kennedy’s supporters gathered to see the trial. Kennedy’s health -oriented movement He became a fresh and huge part of the Republican Coalition, since he joined the president’s campaign in August 2024.
Andrea Levinson, who traveled from Columbia, Maryland to take part in the trial, said Daily Signal that Trump was the first republican she had ever voted for and said that Kennedy was the reason she became politically busy.
“On the day on which RFK declared that he was a candidate for president, I knew that I had a call from a larger place, a higher place. I have never been an activist in my life, but on the day he declared that he was taking, I became an activist and I am now for life – she said.
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George Caldwell is a journalism at Daily Signal.
