{"id":1050986,"date":"2025-01-28T14:47:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1050986"},"modified":"2025-01-28T14:47:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:47:28","slug":"icymi-robert-kennedy-allies-fear-he-is-losing-us-senate-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-robert-kennedy-allies-fear-he-is-losing-us-senate-support\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Robert Kennedy Allies Fear He is Losing US Senate Support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point:<\/strong> \u201cRobert F Kennedy Jr\u2019s allies fear he has failed to convince enough senators to confirm him as President Donald Trump\u2019s top health official, said people familiar with the matter. \u2026 Opposition to Kennedy\u2019s nomination has emerged from influential conservative voices \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/d1128fd7-f5f0-45b0-9a05-1b7c63cdb1a4\"><strong>Financial Times<\/strong><\/a><strong>: Robert Kennedy allies fear he is losing US Senate support<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Oliver Barnes and Myles McCormick&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Robert F Kennedy Jr\u2019s allies fear he has failed to convince enough senators to confirm him as President Donald Trump\u2019s top health official, said people familiar with the matter.<\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Opposition to Kennedy\u2019s nomination has emerged from influential conservative voices<\/strong>, including The Wall Street Journal\u2019s editorial board and Americans Advancing Freedom, a group co-founded by former vice-president Mike Pence \u2026<strong><br><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Kennedy, a vocal vaccine sceptic<\/strong> and critic of the pharmaceutical industry, would <strong>control a sprawling department with 13 divisions and agencies and a budget of $1.8tn if he was confirmed.\u00a0 <\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>One of his closest advisers <\/strong>\u2014 lawyer Aaron Siri \u2014 also led a lawsuit trying to <strong>revoke the most widely used polio vaccine.<\/strong> <strong>McConnell, a polio survivor, has taken issue with Kennedy\u2019s antivax comments, warning in December that undermining confidence in \u201cproven cures\u201d was \u201cdangerous.\u201d<\/strong><br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kennedy\u2019s vow to ban high-fructose corn syrup had <strong>also worried senators with states in the agricultural heartlands,<\/strong> the people close to him said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201cRobert F Kennedy Jr\u2019s allies fear he has failed to convince enough senators to confirm him as President Donald Trump\u2019s top health official, said people familiar with the matter. \u2026 Opposition to Kennedy\u2019s nomination has emerged from influential conservative voices \u2026\u201d Financial Times: Robert Kennedy allies fear he is losing US Senate support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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