Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is sitting for a Senate grilling on Thursday over his sweeping shakeup of the nation's health agencies and vaccine policy.

The big picture: His testimony is senators' first opportunity to publicly question Kennedy since May, when he defended the Trump administration's mass layoffs and funding cuts to his department. Since then, turmoil at HHS has grown and spilled into public view.

Driving the news: At the onset of the hearing, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) referenced the secretary's past assurance that he would not make it difficult for people to access vaccines and asked for Kennedy to be formally sworn in. • "That was clearly not true," Wyden said. • Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) denied th

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