In recent days, various Senate committees held hearings on some of Donald
Trump’s most ludicrous nominees for key positions in his administration.
These dangerous, unqualified, and vindictive MAGA sycophants include:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
RFK Jr. is an anti-science conspiracist and anti-vaccine zealot who Trump wants
to put in charge of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Here are just some of the agencies and programs that are part of HHS: the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA), Head Start, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
And — oh yeah — Medicare and Medicaid.
If confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services, RFK Jr. would be a
direct threat to our nation’s public health infrastructure and to the well-being
of every person in America and, indeed, the world.
Kash Patel
Patel is a MAGA fanatic and “deep state” conspiracist who Trump wants to put in
charge of the entire Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
He has been brazen in announcing his intention to weaponize the FBI against
government officials, journalists, nonprofit groups, and the American people.
Here’s one example of just how absurd Patel’s hearing was: He claimed not to be
familiar with a far-right podcaster who promotes antisemitism and white
supremacism even though he has been on the man’s podcast eight times .
Russell Vought
Vought is a Christian nationalist and one of the architects of Project 2025 — which, despite Trump’s see-through claims otherwise, is his regime’s
playbook. Trump wants to put Vought in charge of the mundane-sounding but
absolutely critical Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
In a nutshell, OMB oversees everything the entire executive branch of the
federal government does.
Vought is fixated on a maximalist vision of presidential power that would let
Trump ignore Congress and the Constitution. And he is committed to using
government power to advance the view that America should officially be a
Christian nation.
The illegal freeze on all federal grants and loans this past week is exactly the
kind of thing the American people will be subjected to again and again if Vought
is confirmed.
Look, we know that many MAGA senators will rubber stamp these nominees in
groveling fealty to Trump.
But we also know that some Republican senators have doubts about each of these
men and that the Republican majority in the Senate is wafer thin.
We have to try to get 51 senators to reject these preposterous nominees.
By the way, as we fight to block Trump’s dangerous and unqualified nominees for
essential roles throughout the federal government, some people ask what happens
if we defeat one person and Trump nominates someone else just as bad or even
worse. The answer is simple: we fight that person too, and the one after that,
and the one after that. What we don’t do — what we absolutely will not do — is
throw up our hands and give in. Not gonna happen.
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You CAN stand up to Donald Trump. You did it with Matt Gaetz. You almost did it
with Pete Hegseth (a one-vote shortfall you’ll come to regret because the man
will endanger national security). Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Kash Patel, and Russell
Vought are just as unqualified and just as much of a threat. Have some backbone.
Honor your duty as a supposedly coequal branch of government. Put the American
people before rank partisanship. Do not confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for
secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Do not confirm Kash
Patel for director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Do not confirm
Russell Vought for director of the Office of Management and Budget.
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