On another busy day in Washington, D.C., another Cabinet pick of President Donald Trump faced intense scrutiny, and the president made headlines as he signed the first piece of legislation signed during his administration.
A busy day on Capitol Hill kicked off with the first confirmation hearing for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services.
In what figured to be one of the most contentious hearings of Trump’s presidency so far, Kennedy was grilled on a variety of questions pertaining to his history of vaccine skepticism, his stance on abortion access, and his push to curtail certain types of food additives.
Kennedy had also been criticized for his argument against putting fluoride in drinking water, among other stances. He also was pressed on past comments about Medicaid, among others.
Kennedy will face a second confirmation hearing on Thursday before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
Arguments also continued over a federal funding freeze Wednesday. A memo drafted by the Office of Management and Budget had said that funding for a variety of programs would be paused and evaluated beginning on Tuesday afternoon, but a court had paused that freeze until Monday, Feb. 3.
On Wednesday, OMB issued another memo rescinding the previous memo, but White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt issued a statement on X saying that the federal funding freeze “remained in full force and effect” and that only the OMB memo had been rescinded.
Attorneys General who had filed legal challenges after the issuance of the OMB memo sought a temporary restraining order in federal court on Wednesday following Leavitt’s comments, arguing that there was “continuing harm” in allowing funding freezes to remain in effect while the legality of the orders was weighed.
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