New Hampshire Senator Margaret Hassan (D-NH) revealed Sunday that she is not going to vote for Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom she found "clueless" about massive issues like Medicaid and Medicare.
"I'm not going to vote for Mr. Kennedy," Hassan told MSNBC's Jen Psaki. "As is true with every confirmation vote I take, I work really hard to make sure I begin the process with an open mind. And in Mr. Kennedy's case, I was certainly skeptical because of his vaccine denialism, among other things."
During last week's hearing, a tearful Hassan spoke about her adult son with cerebral palsy and slammed Kennedy for continuing to make mothers like her question vaccine safety.
“It makes it impossible for us to move forward,” Hassan confronted Kennedy. “So that’s what the problem is here. It’s the relitigating and rehashing and continuing to sow doubt so we can’t move forward, and it freezes us in place.”
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Hassan told Psaki, "What I saw on Wednesday and Thursday was a man entirely unprepared to be the secretary of this agency, the lead health care spokesperson in the United States of America, for the reasons we've discussed, but also the way he uses this supposed skepticism -- it's really his cynicism about science -- to injure us in other ways."
Hassan continued, "He will do whatever Donald Trump tells him to do. That's been very clear because he's abandoned his support for reproductive rights in pursuing this job. But there's just so many ways that the secretary of Health and Human Services impacts the daily lives of Americans. He didn't know that Medicaid, for instance, covers addiction treatment. He didn't know that Medicaid is what pays for seniors in nursing homes. He didn't know that disabled kids get care through the Medicaid program. He was clueless about the Medicare program and what different pieces of it, what's entailed in different parts of the Medicare program. This is not somebody who should be leading the biggest and most important health agency, really, I think, in the world."
Watch the clip below via MSNBC.
