Protect Our Care publishes scathing report of Kennedy's tenure ahead of congressional hearing marathon

Source: The Hill

04/15/26 9:28 AM ET


The progressive health care advocacy group Protect Our Care is releasing a highly critical review of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s first 14 months in office ahead of a marathon series of hearings he will have in the House and Senate this month to defend President Trump’s budget request.

In the report titled “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vs. Public Health,” shown first to The Hill, Protect Our Care highlights the secretary’s actions on vaccines, medical research, food as well as his apparent aims of mobilizing his “Make America Healthy Again” base as a key voting block ahead of the midterms.

With Kennedy recently defending Trump’s push to expand access to glyphosates and including several experts tied to the beef and dairy industry in writing the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the report argues he is “selling out” his supporters by allowing practices they’ve spoken out against. This report comes one day before Kennedy is set to begin a series of six hearings in the House and Senate over the next two weeks.

“RFK Jr. truly earned the dubious honor of having the lowest public trust rating for health information in the country, and not just by bragging about snorting cocaine off of toilet seats,” Protect Our Care President Brad Woodhouse said in a statement. “Trump’s health secretary has fully exposed himself as a charlatan whose contempt for peer-reviewed science is making America sicker and woefully unprepared for the next public health crisis.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5831996-protect-our-care-kennedy-report/