Robert,
Resign. Not next week, not after another Senate hearing, not after your next Fox News victory lap — resign now. Because every extra day you squat in that office is another day the nation’s health infrastructure buckles under your incompetence.
You’ve turned HHS into a haunted house where science hides in the basement and propaganda struts through the halls. You fired the first Senate-confirmed CDC director in history after a single month, drove out senior leaders in droves, and replaced panels of experts with a carnival of ideologues. You’ve shredded vaccine policy like it was junk mail, confused the public so thoroughly that outbreaks feel inevitable, and then had the gall to call this “reform.” Reform is supposed to build. You destroy.
More than a thousand current and former federal health workers have begged for your resignation. They have accused you, their supposed leader, of endangering their safety, even of stoking the climate that led to a shooting at CDC headquarters. Imagine that: a Health Secretary whose words inspire not trust but violence. You have turned dedicated civil servants into collateral damage in your vanity project, and then shrugged like it’s a scheduling hiccup.
The agencies you oversee are bleeding staff. Morale has cratered. The people who once saved this nation from polio, smallpox, and pandemics now say you are the greatest threat to their work. You are not leading them; you are driving them into the ground. You’ve managed to do what no virus ever could: strip away the very immunity of our public health system.
And the Senate sees it. Republicans who once defended you are backing away like you’re radioactive. Democrats have stopped pretending you can be contained. You’ve unified the aisle in one single conviction — that your presence is untenable. Think about that. You’ve done the impossible: turned Washington into a bipartisan agreement machine, forged not in hope but in disgust.
You are not a reformer. You are a vandal in a tailored suit. You are the chaos agent who confuses demolition for leadership, paranoia for vision, cruelty for strength. Every resignation, every outbreak, every frightened health worker is your legacy.
Resign, Mr. Kennedy. Do it before another disease surges through a classroom, before another scientist walks out in despair, before another grieving family has to connect their loss to your recklessness. Step aside before history cements the only line it will ever write under your name: that when the nation needed a guardian of health, it got instead a man who dismantled it piece by piece, smiling all the way down.
Sincerely,
A Nation Done With You
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Caroline Kennedy warned us .... disease, disability & death are positioned to become the hallmark of the American public health system.
203 days in office (Read Senators Alsobrooks/Wyden report to Congress), firing 1,000 scientists, removing scores of others, disparaging vaccines, cases of measles & whooping cough (once eradicated) are now rising, and for what?
This pediatric nurse is disgusted!
As I watch the clown show of a hearing, I remain gobsmacked at the stupidity problem this country has. And Chuck Grassley, do you even know where you are?