HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. left a liberal Democratic congressman who was trying to smear him during a hearing red-faced by exposing a damning flip-flop on his part.
As The Hill reported, RFK Jr. testified before the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee on Tuesday morning regarding the department’s fiscal 2026 budget request and the Trump administration’s determination to “Make America Healthy Again” agenda.
During the hearing, Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) tried to slander Kennedy as a conspiracy theorist. He accused the HHS Secretary of advancing a “dangerous pseudoscience” and putting American lives in danger by firing civil servants and eliminating entire agencies within the department.
Secretary Kennedy is using his position to advance a dangerous pseudo-science agenda and putting the lives of Americans at extreme risk. I’m demanding accountability from RFK Jr., who’s been doing his destructive work in secret. pic.twitter.com/xSsUNHpqvH
— Rep. Frank Pallone (@FrankPallone) June 24, 2025
Of course, Kennedy has been draining the swamp of the bureaucrats who helped ruin the lives of millions of Americans during the worst health pandemic in a century. If anything, more firings need to occur.
Following Pallone’s nasty smear, Kennedy exposed a damning truth: the congressman long ago strongly supported efforts to uncover people injured by vaccines. Due to this, the now-HHS secretary and Pallone were in alliance.
But then Big Pharma dropped a bag, and Pallone abandoned his long-held advocacy. What a fraud.
“If I can take a minute to respond to something that Congressman Pallone said, and I’ll ask you, Congressman Pallone,” Kennedy began.
“15 years ago, you and I met. You were at that time a champion for people who had suffered injuries from vaccines,” he added. “You were very adamant about it. You were the leading member of Congress on that issue.”
“Since then, you’ve accepted $2 million from pharmaceutical companies in contributions—more than any other member of this committee, and your enthusiasm for supporting the old ACIP committee, which was completely rife and pervasive with pharmaceutical conflicts, seems to be an outcome of those contributions.”
WATCH:
Oh my God!
RFK Jr. just called out Congressman Pallone to his face for being owned by Big Pharma.
“15 years ago you and I met, and you were at that time a champion for people who had suffered injuries from vaccines.”
“Since then, you’ve accepted $2 million from pharmaceutical… pic.twitter.com/1gqKD2gDYi
— End Tribalism in Politics (@EndTribalism) June 24, 2025
Hearing this allegation left Pallone silenced and set off a bit of a firestorm with one of Pallone’s fellow Democrats> She accused Kennedy of smearing Pallone as corrupt for taking millions from other pharmaceutical companies while claiming to champion working Americans.
Except as one will see in the tweet below, what Kennedy said was true. According to Open Secrets, Pallone has accepted $2,211,781 from Big Pharma, which could have influenced his change of heart on vaccine injuries.
In the end, money talks.
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