Trump-aligned group putting pressure on Republican senators in push to confirm RFK Jr.

Patient First Coalition (PFC), a nonprofit advocacy group launched last week, says it's now beginning what it describes as a "massive grassroots effort" to encourage Republican senators to support Kennedy, the vaccine skeptic and environmental crusader who ran for the White House in 2024 before ending his bid and endorsing Trump.

The move by PFC, which says it's a collective group of organizations committed to advancing Kennedy's so-called "Make America Healthy Again" agenda, comes ahead of Tuesday's key confirmation vote by the Senate Finance Committee.

Shannon Burns, the group's senior advisor, shared that "our grassroots phase will include television, radio and podcast interviews with our advisory board members, as well as guest columns in newspapers across the country."

"We will enable thousands of calls and emails into Senate offices from millions of Americans who support this agenda. We want to organize them, mobilize them, and make sure their voices are heard before the Senate votes," Burns added.

PFC pointed out that it will initially give "special focus" to GOP senators in Louisiana, Maine, Alaska, Kentucky and North Carolina.

"Your past of undermining confidence in vaccines with unfounded or misleading arguments concerns me," Cassidy told Kennedy at the end of Thursday's confirmation hearing.

PFC is one of a handful of outside groups targeting GOP senators in the fight to confirm Trump's nominees.

A source in Trump's political orbit tells Fox News that those groups could "exact consequences" on Republican senators who don't support the president's Cabinet nominees.

And Trump on Sunday took to social media to demand that Senate Republicans 'GET TOUGH VERY FAST" in confirming the rest of his Cabinet.