MSNBC: ‘Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Is Not a Trained Health Expert, Is Going To Be Ahead of These 13 Health Agencies in a Truly Remarkable Fashion’

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HILLYARD: "By a 52-48 vote, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been confirmed, Jose, as the next Secretary of Health and Human Services for the Trump administration. The sole no vote from the Republican conference was Mitch McConnell, the former Senate Majority Leader, whose no vote's now on Pete Hegseth, as well as Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., clearly having little sway or influence over the other colleagues that he once served as Senate Majority Leader, really taking the upper hand on votes like this. But what we have seen him do now on three particular votes is vote no. At the same time, he was unable to get any other Republican senators, from Bill Cassidy to Lisa Murkowski to Susan Collins, to vote no as well. And so Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is not a trained health expert, who is going to be ahead of these 13 health agencies, really in a remarkable fashion, from Democratic presidential candidate to independent presidential candidate to endorser of Donald Trump, somebody who says that he intends to make America healthy again, has been a longtime vaccine skeptic who has sought to use his organizations to remove vaccines from the market, yet also has called attention to issues of obesity and the various ingredients that are American food and drink products. He is somebody who has galvanized a coalition and a following across the country of individuals that may consider themselves liberals, others conservatives, and was able to put together in the Senate a Republican conference that ultimately backed his confirmation, no Democrats voting to confirm him.”