1. United States
2. Ohio
3. Letter

I urge you to vote NO on confirming Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of Health and Human Services. I can’t believe he made it through committee! What are we even doing, here? In his confirmation hearings, Kennedy railed against Medicaid without fully understanding what the program was or who it served. After a career profiting from spewing dangerous anti-vaccine disinformation that has led to countless deaths, he still refuses to acknowledge that vaccines are safe. The secretary of HHS is a major role that oversees the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, Head Start, and other vital government programs that support Americans’ public health, safety and well-being. If the administration’s current trajectory is any indication, Kennedy will immediately inject fear, chaos and distrust across the nation. Would we trust him with the pending bird flu crisis or the next coronavirus pandemic? Can we trust him to keep kids safe during cold and flu season? Is he going to condition assistance to our fellow Americans on conspiracy theories and junk science? I do not think the nation should risk our public health by having such an unqualified nominee lead HHS. I am urging you to vote NO on confirming RFK Jr.