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🚨RFK jr. is currently testifying before the House Energy & Commerce Committee's Health Subcommittee. We're keeping a close watch. Follow along for updates HERE ⬇️ (🧵):

From Carter: The system is expensive and failing public health. 35% of adults are obese. Rising health care premiums are a problem. Promoting MAHA message. Looking forward to hearing more about HHS plans & FDA modernization.

DeGette: MAHA report contained a lot of errors, including AI hallucination & fabricated results. US is the leader in biomedical research. 24% cancer death rate. Antiviral cures Hep C. 154 million lives saved with vaccination globally. All driven by HHS. Trump/DOGE causing chaos in this system.

DeGette Cont: Cuts were haphazard. Funding halts are hugely damaging. Americans are dying waiting for care. Research is stopping. She referenced the WaPo article on delayed cancer trials. Says 2026 Budget is a chaos roadmap. Will result in less research, of lower quality, & brain drain.

DeGette Cont: Budget will be eliminating programs in diabetes and maternal fetal health, fewer healthcare providers trained. Emphasizes that this WILL cost jobs and lives!!

Guthrie: HHS work impacts public everywhere. Says core mission: increase health and wellness of the public. MAHA resonates because people want this, too. Budget rethinks how HHS accomplishes its mission. How can we be more efficient in this mission?

Pallone: Trump chaos in HHS is damaging. This hearing meant to get answers...we have demanded answers to the illegal actions of the current admin. RFK has given no justification. Deep concerns with nomination, fired all ACIP members and appointed 8 anti-vaxxers.

Pallone: You have exceeded expectations in the worst possible ways. You are not upholding committements to the senate, but instead, advancing pseudoscience. 340 current employees signed Bethesda Declaration, an unprecedented action! 💯💯💯

Pallone: Grantees and stakeholders cannot get questions answers, deadlines being missed, programs shut down. 54% cut to CDC threatening agency mission 20% cut to NIH cut research 11% cut to FDA decimating ability to keep food safe