RFK Jr. Melts Down Over Embarrassing Revelations About His Leadership

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UNITED STATES - JANUARY 9: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump's pick to be secretary of Health and Human Services, meets with Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, in Hart building on Thursday, January 9, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)https://thedailybeast-thedailybeast-prod.web.arc-cdn.net/resizer/v2/UYGXTY5YOFELLBJGESW4BS4ROQ.jpg?auth=634181ddca4fa4772d997411b30f88e1c9b680b70e2608417171be6c5b2014c6&smart=true&width=7581&height=4264" />
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has lashed out at a New York Times reporter who published a damning exposé claiming he had “checked out” of his Cabinet job.

In an 870-word screedhttps://x.com/SecKennedy/status/2064855154428698725?s=20" rel="" target="_self" title="https://x.com/SecKennedy/status/2064855154428698725?s=20"> on X, Kennedy went on a tirade against the Times’ Sheryl Gay Stolberg, who covers the vaccine skeptic and his Make America Healthy Again movement for the paper, accusing her of publishing “unfair, inimical, and inaccurate” allegations.

Kennedy took issue with many of the details in the https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/us/politics/ebola-vaccines-kennedy-health-department.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oVA.zaa-.qj3lRC4Y-6Dj&smid=url-share" rel="" target="_self" title="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/us/politics/ebola-vaccines-kennedy-health-department.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oVA.zaa-.qj3lRC4Y-6Dj&smid=url-share">report published on Sunday.

This included claims that hehttps://www.thedailybeast.com/checked-out-rfk-jr-missing-as-agency-spirals/" rel="" target="_self" title="https://www.thedailybeast.com/checked-out-rfk-jr-missing-as-agency-spirals/"> has little interest in overseeing the full range of responsibilities at the Department of Health and Human Services because he would rather focus on his own priorities, such as issuing food recommendations and trying to prove thathttps://www.thedailybeast.com/jaw-dropping-cost-of-rfk-jrs-secret-crusade-exposed/" rel="" target="_self" title="https://www.thedailybeast.com/jaw-dropping-cost-of-rfk-jrs-secret-crusade-exposed/"> vaccines are harmful.

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