During a Senate committee hearing with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Democrats showed they remain tied to the “cult religion” of vaccine mandates, particularly around COVID-19, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary told Newsmax on Friday.

The Senate Finance Committee had called Kennedy to a hearing about his plans to follow his slogan of Make America Healthy Again, but Democrat senators pressed Kennedy on his actions around vaccines.

“I had hoped that hearing would have been constructive and productive to talk about our chronic disease epidemic,” Makary told “Finnerty.” “But, no, the Democrats chose to make it political theater about the eighth COVID shot in a young, healthy child in America today, which they always seem to do.”

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