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With CDC in free fall, RFK Jr. faces bipartisan rebuke at Senate hearing

Kennedy calls CDC “the most corrupt agency at HHS and maybe the government.”

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A Senate hearing that the administration hoped would be a routine check-in on the president’s 2026 MAHA-driven healthcare agenda erupted into a political firestorm as senators jumped at their first opportunity to confront HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over the chaos engulfing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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