Sanders, the senior minority party member on the committee, pressed Kennedy to concede that health care was a human right, as his father, Robert F. Kennedy, and his uncles, John F. Kennedy and Edward Kennedy, had done. Kennedy again did not give a definitive answer.

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In a scathing letter Tuesday, Caroline Kennedy warned senators about her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., calling him a "predator."

If approved, Kennedy will control a $1.7 trillion agency that oversees food and hospital inspections, hundreds of health clinics, vaccine recommendations and health insurance for roughly half the country.

Kennedy Jr. will appear before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday in his bid to become Trump’s health secretary. Another hearing for his nomination will be held

Watch: RFK's cousin Caroline Kennedy urges Senate against confirming 'predator' for US Health Secretary Caroline Kennedy - the cousin of Robert F Kennedy Jr - has urged US senators to reject her cousin as America's next health and human services secretary in a scathing letter released on Tuesday.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the US Department of Health and Human Services, will tell a Senate Committee Wednesday that he wasn’t anti-vaccine, he was “pro-safety.”

Kennedy Jr. a “predator” who is addicted to power, Caroline Kennedy urged the U.S. Senate in a letter on Tuesday to reject the nomination of her cousin to be the nation’s health secretary. (AP Video: Nathan Ellgren) Copyright 2025 The Associated Press.