Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. clashed with senators Thursday over former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez’s assertion that she was fired for resisting unscientific vaccine recommendations, insisting her story was untrue.
The remarks set off one of the sharpest exchanges of the three-hour Senate Finance Committee hearing.
Kennedy dismissed a question from Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., about a statement Monarez made Thursday in a Wall Street Journal editorial. She wrote that she was pressured to resign or face termination at a meeting last week if she didn’t preapprove the recommendations “of a vaccine advisory panel newly filled with people who have publicly expressed antivaccine rhetoric.”
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