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{"id":3476,"date":"2024-12-10T16:30:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T16:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rfk-jr-heads-to-the-hill\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T16:30:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T16:30:01","slug":"rfk-jr-heads-to-the-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rfk-jr-heads-to-the-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr. heads to Blue Light News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/subscriber.politicopro.com\/article\/2024\/11\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-trump-hhs-secretary-pick-00188617\" target=\"_blank\">pick to lead HHS<\/a>, has nearly two dozen meetings scheduled on Capitol Hill, Blue Light News has learned.<\/p>\n<p>One of Blue Light News stops includes a meeting with the incoming leader of the Senate HELP Committee, which could hold a confirmation hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Katie Miller, Kennedy\u2019s media contact during the transition, said he has at least 20 meetings scheduled. But she declined to discuss more details.<\/p>\n<p><b>Why it matters:<\/b> The pick, which has roiled many public health experts, comes after Trump promised to let Kennedy \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/video\/2024\/10\/28\/trump-says-he-would-let-rfk-jr-go-wild-on-medicines-1466853\" target=\"_blank\">go wild\u201d with health and food policy<\/a> in his administration after Kennedy dropped his own presidential bid to endorse the now-president-elect.<\/p>\n<p>A person familiar with some of the meetings granted anonymity to discuss the details told Blue Light News Kennedy will meet with the Senate HELP Committee\u2019s Republican staff on Thursday and will also meet with committee ranking member <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/66858\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Cassidy<\/a> (R-La.) sometime next week. Cassidy will chair the panel next year. Kennedy could undergo confirmation hearings both with the HELP committee and Senate Finance, but only the latter would vote on his confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear if Kennedy could clinch enough Senate votes to assume the top role at HHS. Trump\u2019s announcement that he would nominate Kennedy to the post has been met with <a href=\"https:\/\/subscriber.politicopro.com\/article\/2024\/12\/pro-briefing-takeaways-outlook-for-end-of-year-package-and-trumps-hhs-picks-00192908\" target=\"_blank\">mixed feelings on Capitol Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Though Republicans will have an edge, it will only take four defectors to sink RFK Jr.\u2019s nomination if Democrats, as expected, oppose him in unison. Republicans have rushed to applaud some of Trump\u2019s more conventional Cabinet picks, but the lack of public enthusiasm for RFK Jr. suggests some may be skeptical.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s pick to lead HHS, has nearly two dozen meetings scheduled on Capitol Hill, Blue Light News has learned. One of Blue Light News stops includes a meeting with the incoming leader of the Senate HELP Committee, which could hold a confirmation hearing. Katie Miller, Kennedy\u2019s media contact during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}