'This Is Life Or Death': Former HHS Secretary Sounds Alarm On Trump's RFK Jr. Pick
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Kathleen Sebelius, who served as HHS secretary under Barack Obama, warned that Kennedy would be an "absolutely terrifying" choice to lead the department.
A former secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services on Sunday declared that President-elect Donald Trump made a “very dangerous” move by picking conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to fill her old role.
“I think we’re talking about magnitudes of danger beyond erroneously making legal decisions. This is life or death,” said Kathleen Sebelius in an interview with MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart.
Sebelius, who oversaw the Affordable Care Act’s implementation while serving as HHS head under Barack Obama, said the department affects Americans “from birth to their grave” and is “intimately” tied to every state in the nation.
She added that Kennedy’s history of pushing false claims about vaccines is “totally disqualifying for anyone” who seeks the HHS post.
“That — in and of itself, from the bully pulpit of HHS — could end up killing people, could end up harming children,” she said of the pick by Trump, who vowed to let Kennedy “go wild” on health policy.
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