R obert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s pick to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), was grilled by Democratic senators during his confirmation hearing on Jan. 29 and Jan. 30, who confronted him with conspiratorial and conflicting statements he has made about COVID-19.

The man who hopes to be President Donald Trump's health secretary said he needed to see data showing vaccines are safe, but when an influential Republican senator did so, he dismissed it.

Citing unverified data, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed in December 2021 that the Covid-19 vaccine was the “deadliest vaccine ever made.” A few months prior, he petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to rescind authorization of the Covid-19 shots.

Indiana Sen. Todd Young asked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to commit to directing funding for long COVID research toward potential treatments and diagnostics if he were to be confirmed as health and human services secretary.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. petitioned the FDA to revoke its authorization for the Covid-19 vaccine just six months after it was made available.

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) used his time at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Senate confirmation hearing to ask Kennedy about his past comments on COVID-19, AIDS and abortion among other subjects.

US Senator Michael Bennet, a Colorado Democrat, grills Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about his past comments on Covid, lyme disease and abortion during the Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing to be Secretary of Health and Human Services.