RFK Jr. Testifies Before Senate, Fed Confirmation Hearing, Harvard's Legal Victory
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🗓️ 4 September 2025
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will testify in the Senate today following a week of upheaval at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A Senate committee holds a hearing on President Trump’s nominee to fill a vacant seat on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. And, a federal judge in Boston has handed Harvard University a win, ruling the Trump administration unlawfully froze billions of dollars in research funds.
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| 0:00.0 | Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before the Senate today. The hearing is meant to be about the president's health agenda, but it comes on the heels of upheaval at the CDC. |
| 0:11.4 | So what are lawmakers expected to ask about? |
| 0:13.8 | I'mi Martinez. That is Michelle Martin, and this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:20.9 | President Trump wants to install more of his own people at the Federal Reserve. |
| 0:24.6 | We'll have a majority very shortly, so that'll be great. |
| 0:27.2 | Once we have a majority, housing is going to swing and it's going to be great. |
| 0:32.4 | A Senate committee hearing to fill a vacant seat on the Fed's governing board could get the president one step closer |
| 0:37.9 | reaching that majority. And a federal judge in Boston has handed Harvard University a legal victory, |
| 0:43.5 | ruling the Trump administration's freeze on funding to the university unlawful. Stay with us. |
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