WASHINGTON, April 21 -- Sen. Chris Murphy issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Wednesday questioned U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a hearing of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee. Highlighting the nursing home industry's multi-million-dollar donations to the Trump campaign, Murphy pressed Kennedy on the Trump administration's indefensible rescission of an HHS rule requiring nursing homes to maintain sufficient staffing to keep vulnerable and elderly patients safe. Murphy also called for Kennedy to shut down MAHA PAC, a pro-RFK Jr. political action committee with deep financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry.
Murphy detailed how dark money interes...