U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., testifies before a Senate Finance Committee hearing on President Donald Trump’s 2026 health care agenda, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 4, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a memorandum that aims to crack down on direct-to-consumer prescription…
This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day: 1. Help wanted Last week’s salvo of job market data was weaker-than-expected across the board. While that raised some investors’ hopes for a forthcoming interest rate cut from…
My top 10 things to watch Monday, Sept. 8 1. Wall Street was looking to open slightly higher this morning after a rocky start to September. The S & P 500 declined on Friday but still managed to eke out weekly gains. This week, we get consumer and wholesale inflation data. 2. The market expects…
At the end of summer, Congress is often sleepy, and slowly gets back to work. But this past week was an exception. On Capitol Hill, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. arrived, and the controversial Health and Human Services Secretary sparked a reckoning over public health in America. At a hearing before the Senate Finance Committee on…
In the wake of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s firing of top CDC officials and cuts in mRNA vaccine research, Dr. Timothy Johnson (longtime network TV medical editor and founding editor of the Harvard Medical School Health Letter) has a message for a fellow doctor, Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy, who’d promised…
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to announce that the use of Tylenol by pregnant women may be linked to autism in children, according to a report Friday in the Wall Street Journal — which the Department of Health and Human Services said was “speculation.” This comes after Kennedy said in April that HHS…
Gov. Hochul Friday signed an executive order ensuring continued access to COVID-19 vaccines in New York after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took steps to limit availability of the shots. The governor’s measure declares a health emergency and authorizes pharmacists to continue providing the vaccines to anyone who wants them at their local drug…
RFK Jr. testifies on CDC turmoil, vaccine policies at tense Senate hearing – CBS News Watch CBS News HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced heated questions Thursday from Democrat and Republican senators over his vaccine policies and turmoil involving leadership at the CDC. CBS News’ Nikole Killion reports. Source link
Sen. Ron Wyden laid into Kennedy in his opening statement, saying the secretary was responsible for fueling “mistrust” in the U.S. health care system. “Families are confused,” Wyden said. “They’re scared about who to trust about their health care. Robert Kennedy and Donald Trump have done so much to feed that mistrust.” Wyden specifically went…
More than 1,000 current and former Health and Human Services employees penned an open letter Wednesday calling for HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to either resign or be fired. The letter — whose signatories were not publicly named — was released at a tense time for the health agency. Last week, Centers for Disease…