Introduction: Pink Sheet Executive Editor Derrick Gingery, Senior Writer Sarah Karlin-Smith, Senior Editor Sue Sutter and Editor-in-Chief Nielsen Hobbs discuss the many commitments Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-LA, to secure his vote to move his Health and Human Services Secretary nomination to the Senate floor (:25). They also consider the slow restoration of some US Food and Drug Administration public communications and the impact of HHS postponing activities not deemed “mission-critical” (10:36).

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