Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will stand before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee Thursday as President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was pressed to clarify his views on vaccines, abortion and public health priorities in the first of two senate hearings as he tries to make the case to become President Donald Trump’s health secretary.

He needs to earn support from nearly all Senate Republicans to become Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Fifty-one percent oppose Kennedy's nomination to head up the Department of Health and Human Services, a new poll has found.