{"id":8027,"date":"2025-02-13T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8027"},"modified":"2025-02-13T12:11:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T17:11:20","slug":"robert-f-kennedy-jr-is-confirmed-as-trumps-health-secretary-after-a-close-senate-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-is-confirmed-as-trumps-health-secretary-after-a-close-senate-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is confirmed as Trump\u2019s health secretary after a close Senate vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Senate on Thursday confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as President Donald Trump\u2019s health secretary, putting the prominent vaccine skeptic in control of $1.7&nbsp;trillion in federal spending, vaccine recommendations and food safety as well as health insurance programs for roughly half the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Senate on Thursday confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as President Donald Trump\u2019s health secretary, putting the prominent vaccine skeptic in control of $1.7&nbsp;trillion in federal spending, vaccine recommendations and food safety as well as health insurance programs for roughly half the country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-is-confirmed-as-trumps-health-secretary-after-a-close-senate-vote\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is confirmed as Trump\u2019s health secretary after a close Senate vote<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[375,81,18,35,1301,276,14,130,1252,51],"class_list":["post-8027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-anti-vaccine-movement","tag-anti-vaxxers","tag-covid-19","tag-disinformation","tag-kakistocracy","tag-misinformation","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-science-denial","tag-trump-regime","tag-united-states","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8029,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8027\/revisions\/8029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}