{"id":5723,"date":"2025-05-14T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=5723"},"modified":"2025-05-14T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T19:45:00","slug":"rfk-jr-s-hearing-with-senate-help-committee-a-live-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=5723","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr.\u2019s Hearing With Senate HELP Committee: A Live Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on Wednesday about President Donald Trump\u2019s fiscal 2026 Department of Health and Human Services budget request. That followed a morning hearing with the House Appropriations Committee. The sessions were the first time Kennedy appeared before Congress following the mass layoffs at HHS, funding cuts, and other changes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What are the biggest takeaways? What comes next? Tune in at 4 p.m. ET for a post-hearing discussion with KFF Health News correspondents Julie Rovner, Stephanie Armour, and Darius Tahir and KFF\u2019s Jennifer Kates, a senior vice president and the director of the Global Health &amp; HIV Policy program.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/about-us\">KFF Health News<\/a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF\u2014an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/about-us\/\">KFF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>USE OUR CONTENT<\/h3>\n<p>This story can be republished for free (<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/rfk-jr-hearing-senate-help-committee-live-discussion-kff-analysis-may-14\/view\/republish\/\">details<\/a>).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on Wednesday about President Donald Trump\u2019s fiscal 2026 Department of Health and Human Services budget request. That followed a morning hearing with the House Appropriations Committee. The sessions were the first time Kennedy appeared before Congress following the mass layoffs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}