Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, was escorted out of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s congressional hearing on Wednesday.

Kennedy will speak about the agency’s budget request for the year, which includes a $500 million boost for his “Make America Healthy Again” initiative.

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

Kennedy Jr. was shortly into his opening statement before a Senate committee Wednesday when protesters disrupted the hearing, ...