US health chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr began on Thursday a marathon series of hearings before federal lawmakers, questioning set to scrutinize the vaccine skeptic's agenda that has outraged the medical community.
The testimony before US congressional committees is related to Republican President Donald Trump's budgetary plan to cut 12 percent from the health department, which Kennedy had already worked to downsize dramatically since taking it over last year.
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