RFK Jr. Lays Down the Law on Children's Health

It's great, how almost daily, we see a Trump administration official hit one out of the park. Case in point: While testifying before Congress on Wednesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered quite the rhetorical beatdown to Congressional Democrats, generating a few remarkable and quote-worthy moments. In the process, Secretary Kennedy also made it abundantly clear that his concern isn't playing politics; it's the health of American kids.

Sorry, but I’m not cutting this clip. RFK Jr completely puts congresswoman DeLauro in her place and you should see every minute of it.

-First he completely destroys her claim that HHS is not managing measles properly.

-Then he had to explain to a Congress member how BUDGETING… pic.twitter.com/5OYD5N14UN
— Anna Matson (@AnnaRMatson) May 14, 2025

It's Secretary Kennedy's response to Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) on the budgeting and organization issue that's great:

Congresswoman DeLauro: In your testimony, you say you want to quote, and I quote, "Rescale our biomedical research budget," unquote. Excuse me, but that's BS. You are not rescaling NIH research. You are proposing to but it by $20 billion. And according to our colleagues in the Senate, NIH has effectively cut research funding by $2.7 billion this year in comparison to the same period last year. That's a cut of 35 percent during that period. That includes cutting cancer research by 31 percent. This is the report put out by the Senate. Trump's war on science, which goes into detail about how we are in fact, um, dealing with cutting scientific research. Mr. Secretary, are you freezing or withholding funding that Congress appropriated in 2025 for life saving NIH research?

We should note that Congresswoman DeLauro wouldn't recognize actual scientific research if it were driven under her fingernails, but it's Secretary Kennedy's response on the NIH issue that really bakes the cake.

Secretary Kennedy: (After some back and forth) Allow me to answer that by pointing out the absolute cataclysmic disorganization of this agency under your oversight for 40 years. We had nine separate spend... Nine separate offices of women's health. When we consolidate them, the Democrats say we're eliminating them. We're still appropriating the $3.7 billion but we're not keeping all nine. We had eight separate offices for minority health. We eliminated one. We had 27 HIV offices, okay? We had 59 behavioral health problems.

That's some catastrophically wasteful organization.

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But where Secretary Kennedy really shone was when he was talking about children's health.

🚨 MIC DROP

RFK Jr just lost it on congressional democrats.

“We’re poisoning this generation. 800,000 kids- the poorest kids in the country- and we’re starting them out with this count against them. With, you know, diabetes, pre-diabetes.

Thirty-eight percent of our youth are… pic.twitter.com/txD4Um4HrQ
— Anna Matson (@AnnaRMatson) May 14, 2025

Secretary Kennedy's final blow:

We’re poisoning this generation. 800,000 kids- the poorest kids in the country- and we’re starting them out with this count against them. With, you know, diabetes, pre-diabetes.
Thirty-eight percent of our youth are diabetic or pre-diabetic. That was zero when I was a kid.
Anybody who thinks that we did gold-standard medicine in this country from these institutions- look at our children. They’re the sickest children in the world.
DeLaura, you say that you’ve got, excuse me, Congresswoman DeLauro, you say that you’ve worked for 20 years on getting food dye out.
Give me credit: I got it out in 100 days.
Alright, so, let’s work together and do something we all believe in- which is have healthy kids in our country for God’s sake. There’s no such thing as Republican children or Democratic children. There’s just kids and we should all be care.. we should all be concerned with them.

We should note that the FDA has already approved three new natural food colorings.

Frankly, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro's behavior in this hearing was reprehensible. She is playing politics with the health of Americans and American children. She's arguing against taking a runaway bureaucracy that is doubtless duplicating effort and making it more efficient and more effective. She is arguing against saving the American taxpayers a few million bucks, and she's doing it out of a case of Stage IV Trump Derangement Syndrome; it's a near-certainty that if a Democrat administration were taking these same steps, she would be applauding.

Perhaps Congresswoman DeLauro should be using a little less petroleum-based hair dye.

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