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{"id":5531,"date":"2025-01-30T16:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T16:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cassidy-to-rfk-jr-can-i-trust-you\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T16:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T16:15:10","slug":"cassidy-to-rfk-jr-can-i-trust-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cassidy-to-rfk-jr-can-i-trust-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Cassidy to RFK Jr.: Can I trust you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/66858\" data-person-id=\"66858\">Bill Cassidy<\/a> (R-La.) put Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the spot about his history of anti-vaccine activism at a hearing of the health panel Cassidy chairs on Thursday, prompting Kennedy to say he would \u201capologize for any statement that misled people\u201d about vaccine safety.<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy, seen as a crucial vote in determining whether Kennedy will win confirmation as secretary of Health and Human Services, repeatedly pressed Kennedy about whether he would discourage vaccination at HHS or make unfounded claims about vaccines&#8217; risks.<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy, who treated liver disease as a gastroenterologist before entering politics, began his questioning by recounting the \u201cworst day\u201d in his medical career, transporting a young woman in liver failure due to hepatitis B.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c$50 of vaccines could\u2019ve prevented this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy asked for a \u201cyes\u201d or \u201cno\u201d as to whether the nominee would unequivocally say hepatitis B and measles vaccines do not cause autism, as Kennedy has previously suggested.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy qualified his answer, saying he would do so \u201cif the data is there, I will absolutely do that.\u201d Pressed further by Cassidy, he said if he were furnished with the data, he would make the commitment.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy has a significant following, Cassidy said, noting that he&#8217;s hearing from Kennedy supporters and that patients in Louisiana cite the nominee when deciding not to get vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour bully pulpit\u2019s incredible,\u201d he said, asking again if he would use it to discourage vaccination.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy responded that he was \u201cnot going to go into HHS and impose my preordained opinions on anybody at HHS. I\u2019m going to empower the scientists to do their job.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) put Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the spot about his history of anti-vaccine activism at a hearing of the health panel Cassidy chairs on Thursday, prompting Kennedy to say he would \u201capologize for any statement that misled people\u201d about vaccine safety. Cassidy, seen as a crucial vote in determining whether Kennedy [&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-5531","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\/5531","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=5531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}