Kerry Kennedy, sister of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has joined her nephew, former Massachusetts Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III, calling on her brother to resign as President Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services.
“Medical decisions belong in the hands of trained and licensed professionals, not incompetent and misguided leadership,” Kerry Kennedy wrote on
social media Friday. “The decimation of critical institutions, like the [National Institutes of Health] and the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention], will lead to the loss of innocent lives. This means that children, mothers, fathers, and those you love are at risk now like never before.”
“Enough is enough,” continued Kerry Kennedy,
who is president of a human rights advocacy group named after her father. “Secretary Kennedy must resign. Now.”
Joseph P. Kennedy III was equally blunt in is social media post.
“The challenges before use — from disease outbreaks to mental health crises — demand moral clarity, scientific expertise, and leadership rooted in fact," the former four-term congressman wrote. “Those values are not present in the Secretary’s office”
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Joe and Kerry Kennedy are not the only family members to publicly slam their relative in the aftermath of Thursday’s hearing.
Jack Schlossberg, grandson of President John F. Kennedy,
has also been critical of his Robert Kennedy Jr. in the past. On Thursday, Schlossberg suggested on social media that his cousin gave a poor performance at Thursday’s hearing —
in his own characteristically irreverent way.
“RFK LOSER is choking so badly LIVE,” he wrote.
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