The Trump transition team’s hopes for a bipartisan confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary were likely put to rest on Wednesday when Democrats greeted the nominee with hostile interrogations over vaccines and abortion.
Sen. Ron Wyden, the Democrats’ ranking member on panel, opened his questions of Kennedy by entering into the congressional record a hysterical letter filled with personal attacks by Kennedy’s cousin Caroline Kennedy. The letter, sent to lawmakers on the eve of Kennedy’s first hearing by the former U.S. ambassador to Australia, condemned RFK Jr. as someone who “preys on the desperation of parents and sick children.”
“It’s no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets because he himself is a predator,” the letter
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