The Senate Finance Committee is expected to vote Tuesday on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination for secretary of Health and Human Services. 

Republicans hold just a one-vote majority on the panel, and the committee’s recommendation being unfavorable could determine whether or not RFK Jr. is confirmed by the Senate as a whole. At least one GOP senator is struggling with voting in favor of Kennedy. 

Republicans should reject Kennedy. His lack of principles, troubling history on vaccines and left-wing views should disqualify him from holding a position in a Republican administration. 

So long as the GOP wants to pretend to be a conservative party, people like Kennedy do not belong in it. Weaving people like him and Tulsi Gabbard, two former Democrats now up for Trump Cabinet positions, into the fold is a brazen admission that the Republican Party is no longer conservative. 

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