Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) mentioned on Sunday he’s assured Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s nominee to steer the Division of Well being and Human Providers (HHS), will help a “pro-life agenda” if confirmed as secretary.
In an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” Graham mentioned he’ll help Kennedy’s nomination, regardless that the nominee has up to now described himself as “pro-choice” on the abortion concern.
“I am now OK supporting RFK Jr. because I think during the course of the hearing, he’s committed to a Republican pro-life agenda, President Trump’s pro-life agenda, Mexico City policy dealing with chemical abortions,” Graham instructed Fox Information’s Shannon Bream.
“So I will take him at his word,” Graham continued. “I’m comfortable with what he said on the pro-life issue. He has been radically pro-choice as a person, but I do believe that, as secretary, he will implement a pro-life agenda that will be pushed by President Trump.”
“So I will be a yes,” he mentioned. “But I will also watch every move he makes.”
Kennedy testified this previous week at affirmation hearings earlier than the Senate Finance Committee and the Senate Well being, Training, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and he was pressed repeatedly on his controversial views, together with on abortion.
Kennedy was requested a couple of 2023 marketing campaign go to throughout which he described himself as “pro-choice.”
“You have clearly stated in the past that bodily autonomy is one of your core values. The question is, do you stand for that value or not?” one Democratic senator requested him through the listening to this previous week. “When was it that you decided to sell out the values you’ve had your whole life in order to be given power by President Trump?”
Kennedy repeatedly responded to comparable questions, saying he agrees with Trump that “every abortion is a tragedy.”
Kennedy ran for president in 2024, first within the Democratic major after which as an unbiased candidate within the race. He ultimately dropped out and threw his help behind Trump’s marketing campaign.
