WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., a polio survivor, responded critically to a report in The New York Times that a key lawyer and longtime advisor to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to revoke the approval of the polio vaccine.
“The polio vaccine has saved millions of lives and held out the promise of eradicating a terrible disease,” said McConnell in a statement to NBC News.
According to the report in The New York Times, Aaron Siri is currently an advisor to Kennedy, who is working to identify candidates to serve in federal health positions.
A Kennedy spokeswoman confirmed to The New York Times that Siri is advising Kennedy, but that the two men had not discussed his application to revoke approval of the polio vaccine.
In his statement, McConnell makes it clear he will fight to protect access to the polio vaccine.
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