At a Senate Health Committee hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) questioned HHS Sec. RFK Jr. about cuts being made at HHS.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified on May 14 before the House Appropriations and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committees.

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is testifying on Wednesday morning before the House Appropriations Committee about the 2026 budget.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is standing firm on the sweeping cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services, cuts he says were suggested by Elon Musk and his DOGE team.

Republicans’ plan to reduce spending on Medicaid would eliminate waste, fraud and abuse, the HHS secretary said in hearings Wednesday. Millions could become uninsured under the proposal.

At a sometimes-contentious U.S. Senate hearing, the Health and Human Services secretary was evasive on the rationale behind cuts being made to the department and his endorsement of the measles vaccine amid a rapidly growing outbreak.

Peter Gillooly, CEO of The Wellness Company, made a formal complaint to HHS' Office of the Special Counsel and other agencies, accusing Means of abusing his position at HHS and violating a law prohibiting conflict of interest in government services.

N.J., got into a heated exchange with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., which ended with the lawmaker saying Kennedy's "legitimacy" has expired.

Kennedy described his downsizing of the sprawling $1.7 trillion-a-year agency — from 82,000 workers to 62,000 — as necessary cost-cutting measures that have reduced redundancies.

A recent study conducted by the Ethics & Public Policy Center that found nearly 11% of women who used the popular abortion pill mifepristone experienced a “serious adverse event.”