4 major moments from RFK Jr.’s contentious hearing with senators Politics Sep 4, 2025 8:30 PM EDT

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was at the center of a maelstrom Thursday as senator after senator, including those who voted to confirm him, raised pressing questions over his public health agenda.

Tension was thick at the Senate Finance Committee hearing. Crosstalk and shouting ensued as senators, some of them doctors, demanded explanations for Kennedy’s controversial actions in his first eight months as the nation’s top health official.

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