ALSOBROOKS: RFK JR. STILL WILL NOT ADMIT HE SAID “EVERY BLACK KID SHOULD BE RE-PARENTED”

April 22, 2026

WASHINGTON, DC - Senator Alsobrooks (D-Md.) questioned RFK Jr. during the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee's "Hearing on Fiscal Year 2027 Department of Health and Human Services Budget."

Last week during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing, Rep. Terri Sewell (Ala.-07) questioned Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. about his previous comments stating, "Every Black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, SSRIs, benzos, which are known to induce violence. And those kids are going to have a chance to go somewhere and get re-parented - to live in a community where there'll be no cellphones, no screens."

RFK Jr. denied saying it, and today, Senator Alsobrooks confronted him with a transcript and recording.

Senator Alsobrooks also questioned RFK Jr. on the role of his friend and close associate, Aaron Siri, an anti-vaccine advocate and lawyer who has been working to push RFK Jr. to pave the way for HHS to falsely connect vaccines with autism, and reduce access to life-saving vaccines for American children. When questioned, RFK Jr. couldn't answer who is actually deciding policies at HHS - the White House or Aaron Siri.

WATCH ALSOBROOKS' FULL QUESTIONING HERE

See below for one of their exchanges:

Senator Alsobrooks: My next question. Now, you've had some trouble with the truth. I've seen it myself during your appearances before Congress. We all saw during your exchange last week with Congresswoman Sewell. Can you admit today that you said every Black kid can get re-parented on a wellness farm? Can you admit that you said that?

RFK Jr.: Get re-parented on a wellness farm?

Senator Alsobrooks: Well, let me read exactly what you said, you said, "Every Black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, SSRIs, benzos, which are known to induce violence. And those kids are going to have a chance to go somewhere and get re-parented - to live in a community where there'll be no cellphones, no screens."

The whole transcript was even worse. You said that if you could, you would send every Black kid, your words not mine, to go live on farms and work.

RFK Jr.: I would have to hear that recording. Because I have no memory of saying anything like that.

Senator Alsobrooks: Well, I actually have the recording that I can give to you. But it is absolutely what you said. And if you want me to play it, I can play it.

RFK Jr.: If you ask me what my opinion is, I do not believe that every Black kid should be re-parented on a wellness farm or whatever, and I have never believed that.

Senator Alsobrooks: Well, you said it, sir. I have the video here.

RFK Jr.: I'm telling you I don't believe it. That's not my vision for our country.

Senator Alsobrooks: Well, I'm glad because it was ignorant to say. It was dangerous and it was irresponsible.

RFK Jr.: Well, if I said it, I apologize, but I'd have to see the transcript.

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