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Cassidy says RFK Jr. briefed him on HHS job cuts, but reported study on vaccines, autism didn’t come up
Sen. Bill Cassidy says that health secretary RFK Jr. briefed him on his plans for HHS job cuts but that a reported study on any link between vaccines and autism…
WASHINGTON — Sen. Bill Cassidy, the chairman of the Senate health committee, voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the nation’s health secretary last month on the condition that Kennedy, a longtime vaccine critic, keep him apprised of agency actions, especially those related to vaccines.
On Thursday morning, Cassidy said, the two had breakfast to discuss Kennedy’s plans to lay off 10,000 Health and Human Services Department employees. And while the meeting took place two days after a report that the department had tapped vaccine critic David Geier to conduct a study looking for a link between immunizations and autism, the Louisiana senator said that issue did not come up.
