Senator Graham Open for collaboration with RFK Jr. after successful confirmation reconciliation

Washington, DC (WCIV) – On Thursday, the Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. As President Donald Trump’s health secretary.

Vaccine Skeptic will be responsible for $ 1.7 trillion in federal expenses, vaccine recommendations, food security and health insurance programs for a large part of the country.

Almost all Republicans supported Trump’s nominees despite their hesitation of Kennedy’s view of vaccines, voting 52-48 to raise the latest major member of the Kennedy family to power halls in American politics. After the vote, Senator Lindsey Graham expressed the intrigue of working with Kennedy despite previous uncertainty about the nomination.

“Every president deserves their team,” Graham said after the vote. “I look forward to working with RFK Jr. to improve our quality of life and health in America. ”

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In early February, Graham announced that he was a “yes” voice for Kennedy, despite the former independent candidate for the president’s pro-life posture.

“I am now in order to support RFK Jr. because I think during the hearing he is committed to a Republican agenda for life, President Trump’s pro-life agenda,” Graham continued Fox News.

“So I want to take him with his words. I am comfortable with what he said in the pro-life question. He has been radical pro election as a person, but I think he, as a secretary, will implement a pro- Life agenda that will be pushed by President Trump.

Kennedy’s Groundswell of Support is rooted in his last name and Covid-19 pandemic, where he devoted much of his time to a nonprofit who sued vaccine producers and exploited campaigns on social media .

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During Senate’s hearings, Democrats tried to make Kennedy to refuse a prolonged theory that vaccines are causing autism. Some legislators also raised Alarms about Kennedy, who are financially beneficial from changing vaccine lines or weakening federal trial protection against vaccine manufacturers.

Associated Press Reported Kennedy earned more than $ 850,000 last year from a scheme referring to clients to a law firm that has sued the producers of Gardasil, a human papillomavirus that protects against cervical cancer.

Kennedy has also called for a staff overhaul at NIH, FDA and CDC. Last year, he promised to shoot 600 NIH employees, the nation’s largest funding of biomedical research.

Kentucky sen. Mitch McConnell, who had polio as a child, was the only “no” voice among Republicans mirroring his stands against Trump’s election for the Pentagon chief and director of National Intelligence.

“I’m a survivor from childhood polio. In my lifetime, I have seen vaccines save millions of lives from devastating diseases all over America and all over the world, ”McConnell said in a statement afterwards. “I do not want to condolence the re -tendering of witnessed courier, nor will millions of Americans credit their survival and quality of life to scientific miracles.”

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Editors Note: Associated Press contributed to this report.