Co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s, Ben Cohen was arrested Wednesday at a Senate committee hearing that included testimony from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to a spokesperson for the U.

The widespread terminations at the Department of Health and Human Services have drawn questions about the functioning of key health programs.

In back-to-back Capitol Hill hearings, Kennedy touched on abortion access, vaccines, measles, research, mental health and opioids.

Ben Cohen was one of seven people who were arrested at a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing Wednesday.

Both Sen. Angela Alsobrooks and Rep. Steny Hoyer had contentious exchanges on Wednesday with Kennedy, the Health and Human Services secretary. He testified before two committees: the House Appropriations Subcommittee that oversees health and human services and the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.

He was shouting about children’s lives being lost in Gaza while the U.S. pays for it “by kicking poor kids off Medicaid.”

Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, was arrested after disrupting a Senate hearing to protest US military aid to Israel and humanitarian conditions in Gaza, according to the US Capitol Police.

The Department of Homeland Security is planning on a new Gulfstream V, agency officials confirmed Wednesday, after the planned acquisition spilled into public view during a congressional oversight hearing.