RFK Jr. fires back at Sen. Bill Cassidy over broken promises claim: Ive kept them all

WASHINGTON — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.Kennedy Jr.

rejected Sen.Bill Cassidy’s accusations that Kennedy broke vows that he made to secure the Lousiana Republican’s confirmation vote — insisting that “what he’s saying is not true.”“I went through every promise that I made to them and I’ve kept them all,” Kennedy insisted to News Nation Monday.“I won’t speculate as to why Senator Cassidy is saying those things.

I think anybody can make that speculation.But what he’s saying is not true.”Cassidy (R-La.), a trained gastroenterologist who chairs the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), claimed in an interview with CBS News’ “Face The Nation” broadcast Sunday it was “pretty clear” Kennedy flouted promises he made related to promoting the effectiveness of vaccines.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) website currently states: “The claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.”“I can tell you that that broken agreement that I had with the secretary, that that was not supposed to happen,” Cassidy told host Margaret Brennan.

“So, once you lose trust in somebody, you’re not quite sure what to trust going forward.In fact, you don’t trust anything.

[The statement] should go away, because the evidence is that that is not the case.”Confusingly, the CDC webpage also has a header that says “Vaccines do not cause autism” but indicates in a footnote that the statement only remains online due to an agreement between Kennedy and Cassidy.“By the way,” Cassidy added, “if you build public health upon a foundation of lies, then you’re going to have the absence of adequate public health.

You need to build everything in life on truth.”The Louisiana Republican voted both to advance Kennedy’s nomination out of committee and to confirm him on th...