Former HHS Secretary Reacts To RFK Jr.'s Confirmation Hearing: 'Very, Very Dangerous'
HuffPost
Kathleen Sebelius, who served under Barack Obama, said she's "very concerned" that Kennedy doesn't "understand the agency that he's been nominated to run."
A former secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday suggested that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been nominated for “the wrong Cabinet post” after how President Donald Trump’s pick for her old job performed in his confirmation hearing.
“He doesn’t understand this Cabinet post very well and the positions that he has are terrifying,” said Kathleen Sebelius in an interview with MSNBC host Joy Reid.
Sebelius, who served under Barack Obama and oversaw the Affordable Care Act’s implementation, has previously called Kennedy’s history of peddling false claims about vaccines “totally disqualifying for anyone” seeking the post and warned that his possible HHS leadership is a matter of “life or death.”
On Wednesday, she told Reid that Kennedy demonstrated that “he has very strong opinions about a lot things he knows very little about” in the hearing.
“That doesn’t stop him from announcing him opinions as fact. It doesn’t stop him from making recommendations that are widely disputed by scientific evidence,” Sebelius said.
Run 3 Space | Play Space Running Game
Traffic Jam 3D | Online Racing Game
Duck Hunt | Play Old Classic Game
Donald Trump's White House counselor tried to hit back at criticism of new press secretary Karoline Leavitt but got owned.
Ty Cobb issued the bleakest of predictions.
The fashion magazine and the first lady have... history.
Kathleen Sebelius, who served under Barack Obama, said she's "very concerned" that Kennedy doesn't "understand the agency that he's been nominated to run."
Michael Kosta could not believe this moment from the man President Trump wants in charge of Health and Human Services.
Mark Zuckerberg has spent months wooing the new Trump administration.
Cole Schmidtknecht's parents are now suing Walgreens and pharmacy benefit manager OptumRx.
LGBTQ advocates say the order threatens teachers that openly support their trans students.
“If there’s room up there, I think it’d be great,” Trump loyalists on Fox News chimed in after Rep. Anna Paulina Luna wrote, "Let's get carving!”
An internal OMB document shows that it is official administration policy to block funding to provoke a constitutional challenge.
Trump made the announcement right before he signed the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration’s first piece of legislation.
The health nominee spent much of his confirmation hearing claiming to be pro-vaccine.
In Senate confirmation hearings, he botched the facts about Medicare and Medicaid, two programs he'd oversee as HHS secretary.
Andrew Kloster, a conservative ally, most recently served as general counsel to former Rep. Matt Gaetz.
Before a judge issued a temporary restraining order to stop the freeze on federal funding, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz denounced Donald Trump.
Trump's deputy chief of staff twisted an argument over the government's freeze of critical programs — to the frustration of the CNN host.
“I think if we execute on these kind of fundamental things, the voters will reward us,” the longtime Democratic strategist argued.
The suspect surrendered to police near the Capitol entrance and allegedly divulged his disturbing plot that also involved Mike Johnson and Scott Bessent.