Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. turned a House hearing on health policy and the Trump administration's proposed 2027 budget into one of the sharpest Capitol Hill clashes of the day on Thursday after he denied ever saying Black children taking ADHD medication should be "re-parented," only for lawmakers and social media users to quickly point to a resurfaced recording in which he used that exact phrase.
The hearing, before the House Ways and Means Committee, was supposed to center on Kennedy's health agenda and a proposed $111 billion HHS budget. Instead, it veered repeatedly into confrontations over vaccines, measles, Medicare fraud, and Kennedy's own past remarks.
