{"id":9182,"date":"2026-05-31T17:02:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=9182"},"modified":"2026-05-31T17:02:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:02:49","slug":"a-vaccine-standoff-and-other-key-moments-from-rfk-jr-s-first-congressional-hearing-in-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/05\/31\/a-vaccine-standoff-and-other-key-moments-from-rfk-jr-s-first-congressional-hearing-in-months\/","title":{"rendered":"A vaccine standoff and other key moments from RFK Jr.&#8217;s first congressional hearing in months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., before the House Ways and Means Committee, defending a proposed cut of more than 12% to the department\u2019s budget and outlining priorities such as revising dietary guidelines and targeting waste, fraud and abuse.<br>Democrats sharply challenged him over program cuts and his moves to roll back vaccine recommendations and public messaging, leading to heated exchanges including a standoff about measles outbreaks and CDC pro-vaccination messaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: April 17, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/rfk-jr-kennedy-congress-hearing-testimony-budget-c86ac9f33907f68bb1494523aa9a0ccc\">apnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., before the House Ways and Means Committee, defending a proposed cut of more than 12% to the department\u2019s budget and outlining priorities such as revising dietary guidelines and targeting waste, fraud and abuse.Democrats sharply challenged him over program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":9957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-pandemics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9182"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9978,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182\/revisions\/9978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}