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A recently formed extracurricular radical aligned with President Donald Trump says it's taking purpose astatine Republican senators who stay undecided connected Robert F. Kennedy Jr., arsenic it pushes to corroborate Trump's Health and Human Services secretary.
Patient First Coalition (PFC), a nonprofit advocacy radical launched past week, says it's present opening what it describes arsenic a "massive grassroots effort" to promote Republican senators to enactment Kennedy, the vaccine skeptic and biology crusader who ran for the White House successful 2024 earlier ending his bid and endorsing Trump.
Kennedy survived back-to-back combustible Senate confirmation hearings past week, wherever Trump's nominee to pb 18 almighty national agencies that oversee the nation's nutrient and wellness faced plentifulness of verbal fireworks implicit past arguable comments, including his repeated claims successful caller years linking vaccines to autism, which person been debunked by technological research.
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The determination by PFC, which says it's a corporate radical of organizations committed to advancing Kennedy's alleged "Make America Healthy Again" agenda, comes up of Tuesday's cardinal confirmation ballot by the Senate Finance Committee.
"All uncommitted Republican Senators will beryllium targeted successful this grassroots effort," PFC highlighted.
Shannon Burns, the group's elder advisor, shared that "our grassroots signifier volition see television, vigor and podcast interviews with our advisory committee members, arsenic good arsenic impermanent columns successful newspapers crossed the country."
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"We volition alteration thousands of calls and emails into Senate offices from millions of Americans who enactment this agenda. We privation to signifier them, mobilize them, and marque definite their voices are heard earlier the Senate votes," Burns added.
PFC pointed retired that it volition initially springiness "special focus" to GOP senators successful Louisiana, Maine, Alaska, Kentucky and North Carolina.
Those states are location to Sen. Bill Cassidy, the Louisiana doc and seat of the Senate Health Committee, Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who are often astatine likelihood with Trump, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the erstwhile longtime Senate Republican leader, and Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina.
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"Your past of undermining assurance successful vaccines with unfounded oregon misleading arguments concerns me," Cassidy told Kennedy astatine the extremity of Thursday's confirmation hearing.
PFC is 1 of a fistful of extracurricular groups targeting GOP senators successful the combat to corroborate Trump's nominees.
A root successful Trump's governmental orbit tells Fox News that those groups could "exact consequences" connected Republican senators who don't enactment the president's Cabinet nominees.
And Trump connected Sunday took to societal media to request that Senate Republicans 'GET TOUGH VERY FAST" successful confirming the remainder of his Cabinet.
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