President Trump backs Kennedy after heated Senate grilling: 'Excellent individual'

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President Donald Trump stood by Well being and Human Providers Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. after he confronted an intense grilling from senators on Capitol Hill on Thursday, telling reporters, "I like the truth that he’s completely different."

Whereas talking with the press throughout his dinner with technology industry leaders on the White Home, Trump was requested concerning the listening to.

"Mr. President, Sen. Invoice Cassidy [R-La.] mentioned, successfully, we're denying individuals vaccines. Do you've full confidence in what RFK Jr. is doing?" requested a reporter.

Trump famous that he "did not get to look at the hearings at present," however spoke extremely of Kennedy, saying, "he’s an excellent individual."

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President Donald Trump confirmed his assist for HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. on Thursday. (Invoice Clark/CQ-Roll Name, Inc through Getty Photographs and Joe Raedle/Getty Photographs)

"He means very properly. And he is obtained some little completely different concepts. I assure lots of the individuals at this desk like RFK Jr., and I do, however he is obtained a unique take, and we wish to hearken to all of these takes," mentioned the president.

"However I heard he did very properly at present," Trump went on. "It is not your normal speak, I'd say that, and that has to do with medical and vaccines . However for those who take a look at what is going on on on the planet with well being and take a look at this nation additionally with regard to well being, I like the truth that he is completely different."

Whereas testifying earlier than the Senate Finance Committee, Kennedy confronted intense criticism from Democratic senators, together with Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who accused Kennedy of putting children into "harm's way" along with his insurance policies.

Wyden pressed Kennedy in the course of the listening to, saying that he believed Kennedy had "no regrets" a couple of "basically merciless" agenda.

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Well being and Human Providers Division (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy defended the mass firings on the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC) in the course of the Senate Finance Committee listening to on Sept. 4, 2025. (Wi McNamee/Getty Photographs)

"That is about youngsters being pushed into hurt's approach by reckless and repeated choices to get scientists and docs out of the best way and permit conspiracy theories to dictate this nation's well being coverage," Wyden mentioned on the finish of his questioning.

"I do not see any proof that you've any regrets about something you've got carried out or plans to vary it. And my final remark is, I hope that you'll inform the American individuals what number of preventable little one deaths are an appropriate sacrifice for enacting an agenda that I feel is basically merciless and defies widespread sense," mentioned Wyden.

Kennedy countered by noting Wyden’s a long time in workplace whereas chronic disease rates climbed considerably.

"Senator, you've got sat in that chair how lengthy? Twenty, 25 years, whereas the power illness of our kids went as much as 76%. And also you mentioned nothing."

"You by no means requested the query of why it is occurring. Why is that this occurring? Right this moment, for the primary time in 20 years, we have discovered that toddler mortality has elevated in our nation. It is not as a result of I got here in right here. It is due to what occurred in the course of the Biden administration that we'll finish," he continued.

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Vice President JD Vance additionally got here to Kennedy's protection, telling the senators, "you are stuffed with s---." (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP through Getty Photographs)

Vice President JD Vance additionally came to Kennedy’s defense on Thursday, saying the senators who grilled him are "stuffed with s--- and everybody is aware of it."

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"Once I see all these senators making an attempt to lecture and ‘gotcha’ Bobby Kennedy at present all I can assume is: You all assist off-label, untested, and irreversible hormonal ‘therapies’ for youngsters, mutilating our children and enriching massive pharma," Vance wrote in an X submit. "You are stuffed with s--- and everybody is aware of it."

Kennedy reposted the vice chairman, writing, "Thanks @JDVance. You set your finger squarely on the preeminent downside."

Kennedy's testimony got here someday after over 1,000 present and former HHS workers signed a letter calling for his resignation on Wednesday. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., additionally known as for his resignation.