Thom Tillis Reveals Infuriating Reason RFK Jr. Was Confirmed

North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis revealed that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed due to the fact that 1 legislator decided to judge his lies.

During an exclusive interrogation with CNN’s Jake Tapper Wednesday, Tillis responded to the assertion that Kennedy had gone backmost connected his promises to Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy, who serves arsenic the president of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

“The main crushed I supported Kennedy was due to the fact that Bill Cassidy thought that we should spot however it plays out,” Tillis said. 

But Cassidy, who had led the complaint connected Kennedy’s confirmation, had been duped. 

In February, Cassidy had promised earlier the Senate that, if confirmed, Kennedy would “maintain the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee connected Immunization Practices’ recommendations without changes.”

But successful aboriginal June, Kennedy stripped that committee of each of its members. 

In a post connected X Monday, Cassidy explained that “now the fearfulness is that the ACIP volition beryllium filled up with radical who cognize thing astir vaccines but suspicion.

Cassidy besides claimed that Kennedy had “committed that helium would enactment wrong existent vaccine support and information monitoring systems and not found parallel systems,” and that helium would not usage his presumption to “wrongfully sow nationalist fear” astir vaccines. 

In May, Kennedy announced that he’d made changes to the CDC’s recommended vaccine schedules without ACIP’s input, upending the decades-old consensus-driven method for making recommendations. Kennedy has besides repeatedly sown doubts astir vaccines, touting conspiracy theories and possible wellness risks for the measles vaccine amid a monolithic measles outbreak.