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Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) urged the Senate to cull Robert F. Kennedy Jr. arsenic the Secretary of Health and Human Services successful a Friday op-ed for the Boston Globe.
“Now Donald Trump is mounting Kennedy up to “go wild” arsenic caput of wellness and quality services. Kennedy is not conscionable unqualified, helium is unsafe — peculiarly for children. The Senate indispensable cull him,” said the Massuchusetts person who present occupies the spot antecedently held by Joe Kennedy III, the large nephew of erstwhile president John F. Kennedy.
Auchincloss’s remarks astir RFK echo the concerns of different lawmakers and Kennedy family members alike arsenic Carolina Kennedy besides raised questions astir her cousins' appointment.
He called connected the Senate Committee connected Health, Education, Labor and Pensions to determine whether Kennedy should beryllium confirmed based connected qualifications alternatively than authorities earlier citing his erstwhile claims astir vaccines.
“Kennedy claims that ‘no vaccine is harmless and effective. The evidence indicates that vaccines person saved the lives of 146 cardinal young children successful the past half-century,” Auchincloss wrote. “Measles, smallpox, diphtheria, mumps, pertussis, rubella, and polio utilized to infect hundreds of thousands of American children each year.”
RFK Jr. is presently connected permission from his station arsenic the Chairman of the Board of the Children’s Health Defense organization, which was founded to beforehand anti-vaccine efforts. He was heavy criticized for a documentary that dispersed mendacious narratives astir vaccines being linked to children with autism, among different things.
“If Kennedy is charged with overseeing the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, helium volition fuse his idiosyncratic marque with organs of authorities to pump retired quackery and conspiracy,” Auchincloss stated.
“Kennedy won’t lone onslaught vaccines. Other targets see fluoride, which helium pledges to 'remove from nationalist water' though it has drastically improved children’s dental health; caller medicines for crab and Alzheimer’s, which helium impugns arsenic pharmaceutical poison; and high-speed internet, which helium speculates causes 'leaky brain.'"
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) besides condemned RFK Jr.’s nomination, claiming his enactment would instrumentality the state backmost to the 1700s, portion others person raised concerns with LGBTQ healthcare arsenic Republicans stay unfastened to his stance connected abortion rights.
Analysts accidental RFK Jr. would person a hard clip taking vaccines wholly disconnected the marketplace but helium could repeal vaccine funding, ineligible protections and revoke recommendations.
“Chaos is what America volition get unless Senate Republicans really bash talk information to power,” Auchincloss concluded. “They indispensable archer Trump that Kennedy is dangerous, and cull his Cabinet nomination.”
