RFK Jr. should not be confirmed as HHS secretary

“Efforts to undermine confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed, they’re dangerous,” Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), a polio survivor, declared earlier this month. “Anyone seeking the Senate’s consent to serve in the incoming administration would do well to steer clear of even the appearance of association with such efforts,” McConnell added, in what was clearly a reference to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Trump’s nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services.

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