Georgia’s two United States senators are among the Democrats in Congress demanding that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. resign from his post as head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. At a three-hour hearing Thursday before the Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Raphael Warnock, other committee Democrats and some Republicans questioned Kennedy about his public health views and policies.
Kennedy defended his program cuts and thousands of staff cuts at federal health agencies, including the Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“I want to fix the system, and that’s what we’re doing,” Kennedy said.
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