Confirmation Committee Fears RFK Jr.’s Questions, Not His Answers

Kennedy could be entirely wrong about everything he has ever said about vaccines and still claim a better record on health issues than all the senators combined who are attacking him in these hearings.

AP/J. Scott Applewhite
President Trump's choice to be secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., on January 29, 2025. AP/J. Scott Applewhite

Watching Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s congressional hearings this week made me think back to 2016 when President Trump publicly called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ineffective and questioned its purpose. His comments were met with snobbish mockery and outsized alarm by those who refused to entertain new ideas about old orthodoxies from the likes of someone without a Ph.D. That the president would even question NATO’s necessity was a clear indication that he wasn’t fit to assess it, according to his detractors.

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