Senate Finance Committee Launches Probe Over RFK Jr Alleged Lies

Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, set to chair the Senate Finance Committee in January, has initiated an investigation into Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., alleging he unlawfully lied to Congress regarding his 2019 trip to Samoa. The inquiry focuses on claims that Kennedy stated the visit had nothing to do with vaccines despite occurring months before a measles outbreak caused by improperly mixed MMR vaccinations in Samoa, which resulted in thousands of cases and dozens of deaths. Wyden's letter requests extensive documents from Children's Health Defense regarding its presidential campaign, confirmation process, and communications between federal health officials and the anti-vaccine group Kennedy chaired until December 2024. The investigation follows reports that Kennedy denied vaccine-related motives for his trip while leading CHD during a period when Samoan vaccination rates plummeted after nurses administering mixed vaccines were charged with manslaughter.