This is how Sens voted. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego on RFK Jr.

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The Senate confirmed Vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. As a health and human service secretary over the resistance of both senators from Arizona.

Voting Thursday was a victory for President Donald Trump, nominating Kennedy to the country’s top health job with the promise of “doing America healthy again.” But democratically sensed. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego from Arizona painted Kennedy as a conspiracy theorist and a danger to public health.

“I think of this as a father and grandparent. I know how much Arizona families are interested in their children’s health. All they want to do is what’s right for their families and for their children, ”Kelly said this week on a Senate floor talk Opposite Kennedy. “The last thing that parents need is a more tall voice, especially one in an authority position that pushes conspiracy theories that make it harder to know what is true.”

Kennedy was confirmed with a 52-48 voting that mostly fell along party lines in the narrowly divided Senate. Kelly and Gallego both voted against Kennedy’s confirmation.

Senator Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., A polio survivor, joined Democrats to vote against Kennedy.

Department of Health and Human Services is a massive agency that monitor Medicare, Medicaid, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health and Indian Health Service.

Kennedy was considered a controversial choice to lead the country’s health agencies, especially because of his previous comments on vaccines. Kennedy has recently said he is not against vaccines but earlier said“I think autism comes from vaccines.”

Now Kennedy will oversee the two federal agencies that influence Vaccine Policy: FDA and CDC.

In his comments on the Senate floor, Kelly also threw Kennedy for his claim that antidepressants cause school shootings, not cannons. Kelly pointed on January 8, 2011, mass shooting near Tucson, who almost took the life of his wife, the former rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz.

“Six people died. Twelve was injured. You will not find anyone in the grocery store who believes that an excess of mental health care was responsible for this tragedy, ”Kelly said.

After the vote, Gallego turned to poetry to express his opposition to Kennedy.

“Roses are red, public health is toast,” GALLEGO wrote on xSharing a headline that read “RFK Jr. Confirmed raised anti-vaccine activist to the Nation’s Top Health Post.”

Kennedy is no stranger to Arizona: He campaign here as an independent candidate for president and even filed signatures to get on the ballot in the state. Kennedy also ended his campaign and approved Trump at an Arizona campaign event.

After he approved Trump, Kennedy returned to Arizona to stump for the Republican presidential elected and revealed on stage that he was under investigation of the National Marine Fisheries Institute to collect a “whale test.”

Kennedy cut the head of a stranded whale and excited it on the roof of his minivan to run for five hours from Massachusetts to New York, his daughter said in a magazine interview in 2012, which got new attention during the 2024 campaign.

On the other side of aisle, Republicans in Arizona’s Congress Delegation applauded The confirmation Thursday morning.

“It’s a bad day for Big Pharma, and it’s a great day to make America healthy again,” Rep said. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz, who runs for Governor.