Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was back on Capitol Hill today, this time

testifying before senators for his sixth and seventh public hearings since last week. These

hearings mark his first time back before lawmakers in months, giving members a chance to press

him on some of the biggest changes he's making on spending cuts, vaccines, and other public health issues.

Lisa Desjardin's been covering those hearings and filed this report.

The committee will come to order.

Today, HHS Secretary RFK Jr. reached the finish line in a marathon of hearings about his agency's budget and proposed cuts to it.

We are cutting red tape, speeding decisions, and abandoning transparency.

We're also cracking down on ways fraud and abuse.

President Trump's budget proposal calls for a 12% cut, billions of dollars to the National

Institutes of Health and cuts to programs that support mental health,

women's health, HIV AIDS prevention, and more.

But senators raised a full array of topics.

Do you realize that last year the United States had the highest number of measles cases

in 30 years?

Under Secretary Kennedy, the U.S. is facing the worst measles outbreak it's seen in decades,

over 2,000 cases last year, as the country has seen a drop in vaccination rates for kids.

While some Republicans applauded Kennedy's handling of the outbreak,

We would not be on the right side of this outbreak without your

leadership. Democrats pointed to his past comments questioning vaccines and his move last year to

reconstruct the HHS vaccine advisory panel, adding several members who are vaccine skeptics.

Why would you be doing something that is so awful for kids on this vaccine issue?

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