WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s family are calling for him to step down as health secretary following a contentious congressional hearing this past week, during which the Trump Cabinet official faced bipartisan questioning about his tumultuous leadership of federal health agencies.
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Kennedy’s sister, Kerry Kennedy, and his nephew, Joseph P. Kennedy III, issued scathing statements Friday, calling for him to resign as head of the Health and Human Services Department.
The calls from the prominent Democratic family came a day after Kennedy had to defend his recent efforts to pull back COVID-19 vaccine recommendations and fire high-level officials at the Centers for Disease Control at a three-hour Senate hearing.
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a threat to the health and wellbeing of every American,” Joseph P. Kennedy III said in a post on X. The former congressman added: “None of us will be spared the pain he is inflicting.” His aunt echoed those claims, saying “medical decisions belong in the hands of trained and licensed professionals, not incompetent and misguided leadership.”
This is not the first time Kennedy has been the subject of his family’s ire. Several of his relatives had objected to his presidential run in the last campaign, while others wrote to senators earlier this year, calling for them to reject his nomination to be Trump’s health secretary due to views they considered disqualifying on life-saving vaccines.
Kennedy, a longtime leader in the anti-vaccine movement, has spent the last seven months implementing his once-niche, grassroots movement to the highest level of America’s public health system. The sweeping changes to the agencies tasked with public health policy and scientific research have resulted in thousands of layoffs and the remaking of vaccine guidelines.
The moves — some of which contradict assurances he made during his confirmation hearings — have rattled medical groups and officials in several Democratic-led states, which have responded with their own vaccine advice.
During Covid, these “professionals” forced families to say goodbye to loved ones over Zoom as they died alone, then they celebrated people gathering together to protest and riot. Kennedy should show every one of them the door. Good riddance.
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Thank you RFKjr for all the hard MAHA work you do standing up to captured corporate interests.
They are die hard democrats they oppose anyone and anything the democrats oppose, they all of course fully supported Teddy who left a woman to drown to death and never paid any price for that, so who cares what the immoral hypocritical hacks say.
His family hates him him for hid guts joining the Trump team , they are a bunch of sour losers leftists anti American
Whether you are in favor of Kennedy’s approach or not, let’s realize one reality. The ultimate purpose in putting him in charge was to rebuild the trust in our medical institutions so that they can be seriously effective as guidance for our nation. While Kennedy is obviously attempting that, it is quite clear and obvious from his performance in front of Congress that he will NOT restore any trust for the American people.
The man is an absolute IDIOT! He throws absolute scientific research and evidence out the window and puts the country at risk. Vaccines prevent diseases and needless deaths. I still recall the days of hospital wards with lines of iron lungs with only the heads of patients exposed as these machines assisted breathing because their chest muscles were parylized by polio. The advent of modern day medicine has prevented millions of needless deaths & suffering by eradicating these communicable diseases through the use of vaccines. RFK Jr and the rest of the anti vaccine morons want to set us back 100 years.