On Thursday, during confirmation hearings for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Senator Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) confronted RFK Jr. on his position that “We should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule that’s given to Whites, because their immune system is better than ours.”
Alsobrooks, a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, responded with, “What different vaccine schedule should I have received?”
"We should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule that's given to Whites, because their immune system is better than ours." —RFK Jr.
So what vaccine schedule should I have received?
His answer was dangerous. I will be voting no. pic.twitter.com/RzRZAO6lJM
— Senator Alsobrooks (@Sen_Alsobrooks) January 30, 2025
Alsobrooks also pushed RFK Jr. on his intentions to clean house of the scientists and federal career staff at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda.
Watch the full question and answer session here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44o8nbV9kMs
Upon hearing RFK Jr.’s responses, Alsbrooks ended her time with, “I will be voting against your nomination because your views are dangerous to our state and to our country.”
