Robert F Kennedy Jr, the president’s health secretary, is currently testifying before the House Ways and Means committee, as part of a sprint of hearings before members of Congress about his leadership of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the White House budget request for the 2027 fiscal year.
As I reported earlier this month, Donald Trump’s blueprint pushes lawmakers to appropriate funding to establish the Administration for a Healthy America (AHA). This, you may remember, is health secretary Kennedy’s planned consolidation of many subagencies whose workforces he slashed last year. Last year, Congress didn’t provide funding for
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