Republicans who confirmed RFK Jr. now worried he might be a nut job
Congress cowards is a weekly series highlighting the worst defenders of Donald Trump on Capitol Hill, who refuse to criticize him – no matter how shameful or without law.
GOP senators now see what anyone who has known for months: the secretary of health and social services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a dangerous coal that puts the health of Americans in danger.
Thursday, several republican legislators released Kennedy during a hearing of the Senate finance committee, expressing concerns about its anti-vaccine policies and its personnel decisions.
Senator John Barrasso from Wyoming, an orthopedic surgeon by trade who voted to confirm Kennedy, withdrew a page from the Sénator Susan Collins game book, saying that he was “concerned” of Kennedy’s position on vaccines.
“Secretary Kennedy, in your confirmation audiences, you have promised to comply with the highest standards for vaccines”, Barrasso said. “Since then, I have been deeply worried. The public saw epidemics of measles, leadership in the National Institutes of Health questioning the use of mRNA vaccines, the recently confirmed Ceease Ceease Control and Prevention Director. The Americans do not know who to rely. ”
Of course, only six months ago, Barrasso was Gung-Ho for Kennedy, declaring that the Senate should confirm it because it “would make America healthy”.
Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who was also a doctor before being elected in the Senate, said that Kennedy made more difficult for people to get vaccines, breaking a promise that Cassidy said he had done Before her confirmation vote.
“We refuse people the vaccine”, Cassidy said at the hearing.
In order to justify his clearly false decision to confirm this, Cassidy said in February that he was convinced that Kennedy would provide access to the vaccines.
“Now, Mr. Kennedy and the administration have reached out by trying to reassure me about their commitment to protect the benefits of public vaccination health. said During a speech on the Senate soil, which has now aged like milk in the sun.
Meanwhile, the Northern Caroline Thom Tillis senator also castigated Kennedy for dismissed the director of the Susan Monarez disease control and prevention centers a month after the Senate voted to confirm it.
“I do not see how you spend more than four weeks from an expert in public health with inaccessible scientific references, a long -standing champion of Maha values, benevolent and compassion and a brilliant microbiologist and four weeks later,” ” said.
Monarez said In a Wall Street newspaper, she was dismissed because she would not approve of the recommendations of an advisory panel against the vaccine that Kennedy stacked with anti-vacuum charlatans. During the hearing, Kennedy challenged that, ridiculously claiming that Monarez had been dismissed because she told him that she was not a trustworthy person.
Before voting to confirm Kennedy, Tillis said That he hoped he would “unleash” when he took the reins of HHS. It looks like Tillis got what he wanted.
On Wednesday, the head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, also expressed his frustration in the face of Kennedy’s decision to dismiss Monarez.
“Honestly, he must assume responsibility”, he said. “We confirm these people, we go through a lot of work to confirm them.”
Of course, it was always clear that Kennedy – a brainwell -known anti-vacuum– was going to be a disaster for public health.
“The GOP senator votes to confirm Anti-Vaxxer, is shocked by anti-vacuum policy”, the Democratic Representative Jake Auchincloss du Massachusetts Written on xMocking the shock of Barrasso that Kennedy would implement anti-vacuum policies.
In the end, the Republicans had the chance to vote against Kennedy’s confirmation but failed. And although it is new for these legislators to speak and criticize Kennedy, their words will not mean anything without an action to remove it from his position.
