Robert F. Kennedy Jr. advanced to a full Senate confirmation vote to lead the Department of Health and Human Services despite serious concerns raised by Republicans and Democrats alike, and a CNN senior reporter explained their "acrobatics" on his nomination.
The political scion and former Democratic candidate for president has been considered the most likely Trump nominee to fall short, after he was grilled over his controversial views on health issues, but CNN's Edward-Isaac Dovere said GOP senators appear willing to take Kennedy at his word on abortion and other topics.
"There are more there," Dovere said. "Katie Britt from Alabama, who says, 'Oh, well, I've gotten commitments that we won't have NIH funding cuts that affect people in Alabama. Susan Collins of Maine also has gotten these commitments. Look, these are Republican senators who keep saying, 'Yeah, I believe him, he's not going to do all the things that he said he would do or he's talked about doing,' and they're doing all these acrobatics every which way around, and it's because of one of two things, either because they support doing whatever Donald Trump wants or because they are scared of not doing whatever Donald Trump wants, and that is what's going on here."
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"It is not because, I think, and at least some of these cases, they have truly internalized the belief that they think RFK Jr. would be good as the health and human services secretary," Dovere added, "and you hear them saying it between the lines of what they're saying publicly and some of them and what they're saying privately."
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