Sen. Maria Cantwell to RFK: "You're a charlatan."

You canceled $500 million of research because the mRNA technology is about continuing the research to be ready for the next flu influenza, the next pandemic, and you have to do the

research.

I'm happy to have a detailed discussion with you about it. You're so wrong on your facts.

You're interrupting me. And sir, you're a charlatan. That's what you are. You're the ones who conflate chronic disease with the need for vaccines. The history on vaccines is very clear. This is the 20th century. That's how many people had vaccines and had illnesses. This is the 21st century. This is the decrease, 99% down to 100%. This is what was delivered with vaccines.

And you don't want to support that. You don't want to support that evidence. So yes, the governors of the West, Washington, Oregon, and California, will take up the efficacy of science. Yes, the University of Washington will deliver the science that America will depend on, because you don't want to depend on it.

And his own Surgeon General of the Trump administration said over 2 million lives were saved because the mRNA technology, and you don't want to continue that. You don't want to continue that technology. So what country is going to now take up that technology. So what country is going to now take up that technology lead? What country is going to do that, leaving us more vulnerable to some other country keeping the advantage on having the best

more vulnerable to some other country keeping the advantage on having the best technology? So I'm telling you I represent a state that's about technology.