Haley Stevens impeached for interrogation of RFK Jr.
Rep. Haley Stevens made the case for impeachment while questioning Robert Kennedy Jr. during a tense exchange on Capitol Hill.
A now-viral photo shows Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez having a lively conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after a congressional hearing that infuriated the department’s health secretary.
Representative Ocasio-Cortez of New York was the first to address Kennedy at the hearing, asking him why he chose to send more money to insurance companies.
Although the two men appear to agree on some points, subsequent photos show the congressman confronting Kennedy.
What happened during the hearing?
RFK Jr. was called to testify by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Ocasio-Cortez used her time to press health insurance companies and how the government recently decided to increase payments to the industry.
“The industry says they’re increasing these costs, but the industry is deceiving the public. So we know they’re lying. We know they’re even lying about how it works. They’re upcoding. They’re telling us, the people, the government, Medicare, our system, that people are sicker than they actually are in order to get more money,” Ocasio-Cortez said at the hearing.
“If I’m right, we’re giving them more money because they say they need it?”
Mr Kennedy agreed that the industry was lying, but said that had to be balanced against the impact on patients.
Why did AOC feud with RFK Jr.?
Photos taken after the hearing show the two in what appears to be a heated conversation.
These images, taken by Liz Eslie White of the Wall Street Journal, have since gone viral due to their body language.
It wasn’t immediately clear what they were talking about. However, a WSJ reporter responded to a comment asking if the two had been arguing, writing that the conversation “appeared to be friendly.”
Neither Kennedy nor Ocasio-Cortez mentioned the exchange.
