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.
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?