HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spent the day testifying on Capitol Hill where he faced a grilling, as lawmakers pressed him on the Trump administration's overhaul of federal health agencies and billions in cuts to the multiple agencies he oversees.

House Democrats in particular raised concerns about whether Kennedy was violating the law in cutting funding appropriated

by Congress for medical research this year. Kennedy said he's streamlining some funds.

Excuse me, but that's BS. You are not rescaling NIH research. You are proposing to cut it by

$20 billion. I want my questions I answered on are you freezing and withholding

funding that Congress appropriated in 2025 for life-saving NIH research? We are not withholding

any funding for life-saving research. Do you commit to following the law? Of course.

Fully obligating funding that Congress appropriated.

We appropriated, it is the law of the land for NIH research,

and to obligate those funds by September 30th of this year.

Or are you planning to break the law by impounding

congressionally appropriated funds.

If you appropriate me the funds, I'm going to suspend them.

Kennedy's approach to the measles outbreak also came under scrutiny.

He defended the CDC's response, but was pressed by Democrats about his stance on vaccines.

If you had a child today, would you vaccinate that child for measles?

For measles? Probably for measles. I, you know, what I would say is my opinions about vaccines

are irrelevant. I have directed Jay Badachara.

Sure. Like I said, I don't want to... So that everybody can make that decision. But I, you know, I don't want to be...

It seems like I'm being evasive. Yeah.

But I don't think people should be taking advice, medical advice from me.

Kennedy has also been vocal about autism, pledging to create a national database to find, as he says, the causes of autism.

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