With a tie-breaking nod from Vice President JD Vance, President Trump got away with Pete Hegseth, a defense secretary short on qualifications and long on disqualifying personal baggage. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) called him “one of the most erratic, unqualified, and unfit Cabinet nominees we have ever seen in modern times.”

Hopefully, there will be someone in the Pentagon to push back against erratic defense policies that compromise our national security.

But Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard, nominated to oversee public health, the FBI and national intelligence, are unqualified, unprincipled and untethered. This is really terrifying.

Kennedy is Trump’s anti-vaccine nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services. In addition to administering the country’s Medicare and Medicaid programs, HHS has in its portfolio the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration. This is our center for scientific research and delivery of healthcare to all Americans.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), appreciating that the general welfare is on the line, told Kennedy, “Frankly, you frighten people.” No wonder. One of those “people” might include his cousin Caroline Kennedy, who said she had known Bobby her whole life and damned him in a letter to the Senate as a “predator” lacking “any relevant government, financial, management, or medical experience.” She wrote, “His views on vaccines are dangerous and willfully misinformed.”

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