Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has no business heading the largest department in the federal government. He especially has no business playing such a major role in a Republican administration. Everyone knows this. The only question is how many Republican senators have the courage to act on it. If they want Donald Trump to deliver wins for his voters, they should vote down RFK Jr.
As so many in his family have done before, Kennedy has been making the rounds on Capitol Hill this week. Republicans will be asked to swallow their pride and let an old enemy through the gates of the Department of Health and Human Services without even asking him who counts as a human deserving of health. They will get nothing reliable in return. RFK Jr.’s goal is to remain narrowly on-message and hope nobody is familiar with his record, his character, or his associations. But these are precisely the things that senators have always considered in evaluating nominees for Senate-confirmed offices.
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