GOP Senator Forced to Step in After RFK Jr. Loses His Cool in Hearing

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The California Department of Public Health issued its latest voluntary recall against the company this week after several batches of raw milk products tested positive for H5N1, or bird flu. With the virus spreading rampantly among California’s dairy herds, McAfee said it was his farm’s turn to have some positive tests. He said it will take around two months for the virus to move through his herd before they build antibodies and develop immunity. Until then, he said he is focused on feeding the cows, keeping them healthy and working with a farm with no infections 300 miles north in order to keep raw milk, cream, kefir, butter and cheese on shelves.

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UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP! RFK JR DOESN'T KNOW WHAT'S BEEN SLASHED NOR 

THEIR SIGNIFICANCE...HE JUST BLABBERS! 

RFK JR: SWIMMING IN SEWAGE? 

RFK JR: MEASLES FAILURES! BIRD FLU? 

RFK JR. HAS NO MEDICAL OR SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION 

RFK JR. - HOSTILE BECAUSE HIS IGNORANCE IS CHALLENGED!

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Head of a celebrity-friendly raw milk brand says its recall is political. He may soon have an FDA role.

GOP Senator Forced to Step in After RFK Jr. Loses His Cool in Hearing

Erkki Forster

Tue, May 20, 2025

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. started an angry rant during a hearing Tuesday, prompting a Republican senator to urge him to “hold back.”

Kennedy’s outburst came after Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) slammed drastic staffing and funding cuts at his department, and asked whose decision it was to withhold certain childcare and development funds.

Kennedy began by criticizing former President Joe Biden’s administration, and when Murray tried to get him back on track, he snapped back: “You know what, you’ve made an accusation and I’m going to answer it.”

Kennedy has presided over chaotic layoffs at the HHS, often reinstating workers who were fired due to “mistakes.”Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images

Kennedy then launched into into a heated personal tirade against Murray, who tried to rein him in to no avail.

“I want to point out something senator, you’ve presided here, I think, for 32 years. You’ve presided over the destruction of the health of the American people,” he said as he raised his voice.

“Seriously?” Murray interjected repeatedly as Kennedy barged on. “Our people are now the sickest people in the world because you have not done your job!” he exclaimed.

“Mr. Secretary, seriously,” Murray said. But Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist and frequent peddler of conspiracy theories, wasn’t done.

“What have you done about it? What have you done about the epidemic of chronic disease?” he shouted, repeating, “What have you done about the epidemic of chronic disease?”

That’s when Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), the chair of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee where Kennedy was testifying, decided to step in.

“Mr. Secretary I would ask you to hold back and let the senator ask the questions,” Capito told Kennedy.

The answer to Murray’s initial question about who had ordered the funding cuts turned out to be simple.

“That was made by my department,” Kennedy conceded.

It wasn’t just Democratic senators who voiced concern about rollbacks that the HHS has made as part of President Donald Trump’s crusade to slash the size of the federal government.

The HHS on Tuesday reinstated 328 federal employees at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health who faced terminations. The Trump administration initially sought to slash its workforce by more than 90 percent.Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

Capito herself addressed recent cuts at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which oversees workplace safety, saying: “I support the President’s vision to right-size our government, but as you and I have discussed, I don’t think eliminating NIOSH programs will accomplish that goal.”

Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) said that cutting mining research programs hosted by NIOSH, “undermines our ability to meet national security goals tied to mineral independence and supply chain resilience.”  

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