‘Sir, You Are the Wrong Person for This Job’: Senator Tells RFK Jr. He’s Grossly Unfit to Lead HHS

Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) grilled Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and told him he is manifestly unqualified for his position.

President Donald Trump alarmed public health officials and experts when he nominated Kennedy to lead the agency, given the political scion’s long history of anti-vaccine activism and general quackery, which includes his belief that Covid-19 was “ethnically targeted” to spare Chinese people and Ashkenazi Jews.

On Wednesday, Kennedy testified before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. He received a grilling from several Democratic lawmakers and said people should not take medical advice from him. At one point, he seemed to suggest that China had exceeded the U.S. in at least some areas of healthcare because “the Chinese are not spending a lot of money on DEI.”

Later in the hearing, Alsobrooks had reached wits’ end.

“Mr. Secretary,” she began. “I’ve been sitting through this hearing all day today and have noted that you’ve been unable in most instances to answer any specific questions relating to your agency.”

“Because I haven’t been given time,” Kennedy replied, more than six months after he was nominated for the position he now holds.

Alsobrooks responded indignantly and told him he is “the wrong person for this job”:

ALSOBROOKS: Well, no, you have been given time. But the point of the matter is you’ve been unable to answer specific questions. Sir, you are the wrong person for this job. And you had, in this hearing today, the unmitigated gall to say at the beginning of your testimony that China is the head of the United States in healthcare because China does not have DEI.

KENNEDY: I didn’t say that.

ALSOBROOKS: Well, we can roll back the tape.

KENNEDY: You will find I didn’t say that.

ALSOBROOKS: That is absolutely what you said.

KENNEDY: I was talking about science, and I didn’t say they’re ahead of us. They’re ahead of us in some forms of science, certainly not in healthcare.

ALSOBROOKS: Well, we can roll back the tape, but nonetheless, let me go on with my questions.

Watch above via C-SPAN.