Fact checked by Nick Blackmer This week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced two days of questioning about his stance on controversial health topics and his vision for operating the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) should he be confirmed as the nation’s health secretary.

At today's confirmation hearing, Democratic senators were skeptical of the HHS Secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s claim that he is now pro-vaccine.

RFK Jr.'s confirmation hearings continue today as he appears before a second Senate committee. Follow STAT's live updates.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s frequent questioning of the safety of childhood vaccinations over the years is persisting as an issue in his confirmation hearings to become the Trump administration's top health official.

In a confirmation hearing for his nomination to head the $1.7 trillion Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confused two of the massive healthcare programs he would be overseeing as secretary — Medicare and Medicaid — and insisted he was not anti-vaccine.

Things didn’t get any smoother on Thursday when Kennedy appeared at a health committee hearing chaired by Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), a medical doctor who says he is undecided on

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced aggressive questions about his skepticism of vaccines and other issues during the first of two scheduled Senate confirmation hearings.

During his Senate confirmation hearing for the role of secretary of the Department of Health and Human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presented a more open stance to vaccines that was not representative of statements he has made on the subject for over a decade.

Kennedy's misstatements about the program were peppered in between suggestions that he would seek to push privatization of the programs.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump's nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary, attempted to recast his record as a vaccine skeptic as faced tough questions at a confirmation hearing by the Senate Finance Committee.