(NewsNation) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to face questions Thursday before the Senate Finance Committee regarding recent changes within the nation’s leading public health agency.

His appearance comes just a week after the Food and Drug Administration restricted access to the COVID-19 vaccine — a decision that sparked the removal of newly appointed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez, the resignations of four senior officials and public backlash.

Kennedy is expected to defend reforms for the Department of Health and Human Services, which he recently wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed are designed to cut bureaucracy and reduce conflicts of interest that undermine “gold-standard science.”

Kennedy has faced mounting scrutiny as multiple fi

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