Abigail Lee Caroline Kennedy wrote a letter to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions strongly discouraging them from confirming her cousin Robert F.
Kennedy Jr. as U.S. Department of Health and Human Services secretary. Robert will be questioned by senators this week before being confirmed to President Donald Trump’s cabinet. “Overseeing the FDA, the NIH, the CDC and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, agencies that are charged with protecting the most vulnerable among us is an enormous responsibility and one that Bobby is unqualified to fill,” Caroline wrote. “He lacks any relevant government, financial, management or medical experience.
His views on vaccines are dangerous and willfully misinformed.” Caroline’s letter, which The Washington Post first obtained, was also shared by her son Jack Schlossberg on X.
He posted a video of his mother reading the letter aloud. Caroline, former ambassador to Australia, also had personal concerns about her cousin. “It’s no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets because Bobby himself is a predator,” she wrote. “I watched his younger brothers and cousins follow him down the path of drug addiction.
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