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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

RFK JR. NOMINATION HEADED TO SENATE FOR FINAL VOTE

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, News, Society & Culture

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The first round of voting has concluded for HHS Secretary confirmation of Robert F Kennedy, Jr. with speculation putting the final vote some time next week. 

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0:00.0

Things are ramping up. You can feel the tension and the excitement all across this country as President Donald Trump is in action in ways we've never seen it before.

0:12.0

And while that's going on, incredible confirmation hearings are taking place.

0:16.0

And of course, the one that most of us that are here at the Highwire and those of you watching

0:21.1

the Highwire are the most focused on, of course the confirmation of Robert Kennedy Jr.

0:26.6

Well this week he was finally had the vote from the Finance Committee that he had sat before

0:33.4

just over a week ago in some grueling multi-hour sessions, both with the Finance Committee

0:39.2

and then the Health Committee.

0:40.4

But the Finance Committee is the only one that gets the opportunity to vote for Robert Kennedy,

0:45.3

Jr. to go to the floor for the full Senate vote.

0:49.1

And this is what that looked like.

0:53.6

Mr. Kennedy, if confirmed, we'll have the opportunity to deliver much-needed change to our

0:58.7

nation's health care system.

1:00.8

He has spent his career fighting to end America's chronic illness epidemic and has been a

1:07.1

leading advocate for health care transparency, both for patients and for taxpayers.

1:12.6

Mr. Kennedy has given us no reason to believe there will be anything other than a rubber

1:16.0

stamp for plans to gut Medicaid and rip health care away from the American people and be

1:21.6

a yes man if ordered by Musk or Trump to take an illegal action.

1:26.8

At a rally a few months ago, Donald Trump said that he was going to allow Mr. Robert Kennedy

1:33.9

to quote, go wild.

1:35.8

Of all the things that I can think of that I'd like to see a Secretary of Health and Human

1:39.4

Services do, Go Wild is not on the list.

1:42.0

I hope he goes wild.

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