As health secretary, Kennedy will oversee $1.7 trillion in spending on vaccines, food safety, and health insurance programs.

Kennedy's statements have raised concerns about his childhood vaccine commitment to Republican Senator Bill Cassidy.

South Carolina’s two U.S. senators rallied around all but one of their Republican colleagues to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a controversial secretary of the Department of Health and Human ...

Last week, North Carolina GOP Sen. Thom Tillis said he hopes Kennedy “goes wild” on reining in healthcare costs and improving Americans’ health. But one holdout — GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on his nomination to be Health and Human Services Secretary, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Jan. 29, 2025.

In one of the closest votes yet for a cabinet pick of President Donald Trump, South Carolina’s two U.S. senators rallied around all but one of their Republican colleagues to confirm Robert F. Kennedy ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s failure to install a fellow vaccine critic to a key government post is testing the limits of how far the US health secretary can go to promote his public-health agenda.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. met with food industry leaders ... across the board," predicted Hari, who is based in North Carolina. "We have 30 different states looking at legislation ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s ... And his campaign said that Kennedy has collected enough signatures to meet ballot access ...

WASHINGTON — On Capitol Hill, the defining sound of Robert F. Kennedy ... concerns about Kennedy’s views. That silence led some key GOP senators, like Thom Tillis of North Carolina, to declare ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Thursday confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as President Donald Trump’s health secretary, putting the prominent vaccine skeptic in control of $1.7 trillion in ...