(The Center Square) – U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., vigorously defended his leadership and President Donald Trump’s health care agenda in the face of intense questioning from both Democrats and Republicans at a Senate committee hearing Thursday.

The secretary was brought in for questioning at least in part due to his firing of the Trump-appointed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director, Susan Monarez, who held her post for less than a month. But senators interrogated Kennedy over a number of topics with marked hostility – even from some Republicans – accusing him of endangering public health, politicizing science and going back on his word.

Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La. , himself a physician, pressed Kennedy on why he voiced

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