Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified Tuesday before a Senate panel about waste in his department, as Democrats became testy over several points.
During the hearing of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, Kennedy noted, “This agency has a budget that is comparable to the sixth largest nation in the world.”
Here are four key highlights from the hearing.
1. ‘Destruction of the Health of the American People’
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., the vice chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, asked numerous questions about what she characterized as cuts to the department since the beginning of the second Trump administration and lambasted Kennedy for terminating jobs in the department.
“What you are doing right now is enacting your [own] budget…
