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Last week, U.S. senators spent three hours in a hearing room grappling with an urgent problem. The problem is that even though most Americans trust vaccines and feel safer when they and their families have access to them, the Trump appointee in charge of distributing America’s shots has his doubts.

This hearing was supposed to be about the president’s plan to “make America healthy again.” But for Democrats, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s actions as the secretary of Health and Human Services changed the agenda. We’ve known from the beginning, of course, how Robert F. Kennedy feels about vaccines. But it’s worth talking about what he’s done . So far, he has fired m

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