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The GOP senator said a \u201cfoundation of lies\u201d had shaped Kennedy\u2019s health policies. He also accused Trump of treating Congress as an \u201cappendage.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>

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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) walks to a vote on Capitol Hill in March. (Jabin Botsford\/The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) blasted Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s stances on vaccines and public health as being built on a \u201cfoundation of lies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cassidy, a medical doctor who delivered the key vote to advance Kennedy\u2019s nomination as health secretary out of the Senate Health Committee last year, told CBS News\u2019s \u201cFace the Nation\u201d in an interview aired Sunday that he has lost trust in Kennedy.<\/p>\n

Cassidy\u2019s rebuke of Kennedy came days after he and President Donald Trump engaged in a heated showdown<\/a> over Iran during a Senate GOP luncheon.<\/p>\n

On CBS, Cassidy accused Kennedy of breaking an agreement to make it clear on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention materials that there was no scientific foundation for claims that vaccines cause autism.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce you lose trust in somebody, you\u2019re not quite sure what to trust going forward. In fact, you don\u2019t trust anything,\u201d Cassidy said. \u201cIf you build public health upon a foundation of lies, then you\u2019re going to have the absence of adequate public health. You need to build everything in life on truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

He argued that he negotiated his support for Kennedy ahead of his confirmation to ensure that he would be able to enact guardrails over Kennedy\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n

\u201cEither he was going to be in a position where there were guardrails … or he was going to be appointed White House health czar, in which case he would have the president\u2019s ear without the guardrails,\u201d Cassidy told CBS. \u201cYou can criticize it, but I chose to have the one with the guardrails.\u201d<\/p>

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Last month, Cassidy lost his primary race in Louisiana, meaning he will end his 11-year career in the Senate in January. The senator, who voted to convict Trump in his impeachment trial after the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, lost to a Trump-endorsed candidate.<\/p>\n

Cassidy\u2019s tensions with Trump flared anew on Capitol Hill last week.<\/p>\n

The two got into what Cassidy described as a shouting match during Trump\u2019s visit to a Senate lunch as the senator confronted the president over the Iran war.<\/p>\n

\u201cI lost my temper,\u201d Cassidy told reporters after the lunch. \u201cThat\u2019s inappropriate. It\u2019s the Irish in me \u2014 but I, again, matched his tone and volume.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Cassidy initially supported a measure that would have reined in Trump\u2019s powers in Iran, he switched sides after receiving a briefing on the war from Trump\u2019s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff. The measure failed.<\/p>\n

Cassidy told CBS that he believes Trump treats Congress like an \u201cappendage\u201d on Iran, and that he wants better communication.<\/p>\n

\u201cCongress wants to be read in, and Congress has our rules and procedures that our Founding Fathers set up, and they set it up precisely so that there would not be too powerful of an institution of a presidency designed to reflect all of the American people, not just the <\/b>will of one person,\u201d he said.<\/p>

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