Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

First... They were screaming and begging to be let out.

Okay, okay.

Honey, honey, honey.

Bobby, please.

Bobby, Bobby, please.

The United States does not just face a mental health crisis.

We face a dependency crisis driven by over-medicalization.

We will no longer treat them as the default.

We will treat them as one option.

I absolutely will work with you on the PREDICT Act.

It's something that's very personally important to me to have more wastewater surveillance.

And we are also putting $325 million in this budget into a new bio-threat radar system that will integrate with the microbial surveillance wastewater treatment plant to detect pathogens as soon as they emerge in our country and elsewhere in the world.

Secretary Kennedy has a history of anti-vaccine activism.

He has emphasized vaccination as a personal choice rather than encouraging more people to get the measles vaccine as the disease spreads across the country.

Here is Democratic Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware in one committee hearing.

Kennedy said he's done a great job containing the spread of measles and stressed that it's a global problem.

Selina Simmons-Duffin, NPR News, Washington.

Secretary Kennedy has a history of anti-vaccine activism.

He has emphasized vaccination as a personal choice rather than encouraging more people to get the measles vaccine as the disease spreads across the country.

Here is Democratic Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware in one committee hearing.