RFK Jr. must resign

Earlier this month, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified during a hearing with the Senate Finance Committee. He did so against the backdrop of an ongoing and worsening health care calamity in our country.

At the end of August, most of the leadership for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were fired or resigned after refusing to bow to Kennedy's unceasing crusade against vaccines. (He's since indicated he wants to make the COVID-19 vaccine virtually inaccessible.)

Kennedy refused to give our committee a clear answer when pressed about exactly what he believes about vaccines – and wouldn't offer any accountability for the chaos his actions unleashed upon hospitals and health research centers across the nation.

Given the unprecedented nature of the witness's behavior, I requested that the committee formally swear in Kennedy as a witness — and in a revealing moment, Republican committee leaders rejected my request, essentially giving Kennedy the green light to lie to Congress and the American people with no consequences.

As I've traveled across Oregon this year, the message I've heard from every corner of our state, red or blue, rural or urban, is the same: people are scared and confused about the state of health care in America. Donald Trump and Robert Kennedy have done everything in their power to feed that mistrust.

Every day that Robert Kennedy Jr. has been in office, the health and wellness of American families has been further endangered. From doing away with access to vaccines to overseeing the largest blow to Medicaid in our nation's history, Robert Kennedy Jr. is making American families less safe with each passing day. He must resign immediately.

I've been pressing all of Trump's nominees since day one to explain themselves and the damage they've caused, and I will not back down.

It's never been more important that we strengthen our grassroots movement and hold Trump and his cronies accountable.

More soon,

Ron