Secretary Kennedy Testifies Before the Senate HELP Committee on the FY2027 HHS Budget, Apr. 22, 2026
April 22, 2026 · Associated Press · 2:05:11
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What happened
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on April 22, 2026, on President Trump’s fiscal year 2027 budget for the Department of Health and Human Services, carried live by the Associated Press. Per AP’s reporting on the day’s hearings, Republican senators praised the agency’s investments in rural health and nutrition, while Democratic senators pressed Kennedy on vaccines, measles, and the administration’s drug-price deals. In his testimony Kennedy listed the work of his first 15 months at HHS, saying the department has ‘delivered historic wins,’ citing negotiated drug prices, the new Dietary Guidelines, expanded nutrition education in medical schools, the push to phase out petroleum-based food dyes, and the Rural Health Transformation Fund, as AP reported his remarks.
Why it matters
A budget hearing before HELP — the committee that confirmed him — is the oversight record against which Kennedy’s second-year program is measured: the FY2027 request, and his own account of what the department delivered in its first 15 months.
Scoreboard watch
Scoreboard candidate: the FY2027 budget commitments and the first-15-months delivery claims Kennedy stated at this hearing, each as stated in testimony — flagged for the scoreboard editors; the entry itself remains review-gated.
Sources: Senate HELP Committee, hearing on the President’s fiscal year 2027 budget request for the Department of Health and Human Services, April 22, 2026 (full hearing as carried live by the Associated Press, embedded above).
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