How much can you trust Wikipedia?
This is how they describe RFK, Jr:
“Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. (born January 17, 1954), also known by his initials RFK Jr., is an American politician, environmental lawyer, author, conspiracy theorist, and anti-vaccine activist serving as the 26th United States secretary of health and human services since February 2025.”
That tells you just how manipulative and dishonest Wikipedia is.
Meanwhile, Louisiana Republican Senator John Kennedy dismantled the entire Democrat narrative with a few simple questions to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently:
Senator John Kennedy: How many employees were there at HHS when you took over?
Secretary: 82,000.
Senator John Kennedy: How many do you have today?
Secretary: 62,000.
Secretary: Okay. That’s about the level it was in 2019, right before COVID.
Senator John Kennedy: Is this the first time that an institution in America has ever downsized?
Secretary: I don’t think so. I think private and public institutions have…
Senator John Kennedy: Microsoft just announced that they were going to reduce their workforce by 6,000 people. Do you think that’ll be the end of Microsoft?
Secretary: No, I don’t think so, Senator.
Senator John Kennedy: Meta—I still call them Facebook—just announced they’re going to reduce their workforce by 3,000 people. Do you think that’ll be the end of Meta?
Secretary: I imagine it will not.
Senator John Kennedy: You think maybe the people at Meta know what they’re doing?
Secretary: I think that they do. They make a lot of money, Senator.
Senator John Kennedy: Do you hate NIH?
Secretary: I love NIH. I grew up with NIH. I visited it when I was a boy. I loved science, and those were my favorite afternoons—visiting the labs at NIH.
Senator John Kennedy: Do you hate medical research?
Secretary: No, I think we need to lead the world in medical research in this country.
Senator John Kennedy: In fact, isn’t it true, Mr. Secretary, that you would like to see more money spent on medical research?
Secretary: Obviously, I’m the Secretary of this department, and no Secretary wants to see his budget cut.
Senator John Kennedy: Well, one way of doing that, it seems to me, would be to stop some of the stealing. And let me tell you what I mean by that: Let’s suppose NIH gives a university $100 million to research a cure, and that university takes $30 million of it, doesn’t spend it on the research, they use it to subsidize the rest of their university. Is that—does that show a commitment to medical research?
Secretary: No, I mentioned before the example of Stanford, which was taking 78% in indirect costs and we don’t know what they were spending it on.
Senator John Kennedy: That’s theft, isn’t it?
Secretary: It’s not a good way to spend federal taxpayer dollars.
Senator John Kennedy: We call that stealing in Louisiana. We call that stealing. Is there any doubt in your mind that a lot of universities are taking this NIH money, which is supposed to be spent on medical research, and using it to fund other parts of their universities?
Secretary: And Senator, the other people who are writing grants, like the Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, they pay 10% to 15% in indirect costs. We were paying 50%, 60%, 70%.
Senator John Kennedy: So, in fact, what you’re doing is adding money to medical research, not cutting it!
Secretary: We will be able to fund many, many, many more studies by eliminating that $9 billion, at least part of that $9 billion cost.
Senator John Kennedy: Okay. I want to ask you about LIHEAP. Are you familiar with this GAO report they did on LIHEAP?
Secretary: I am not, Senator.
Senator John Kennedy: They found—they audited seven states. They found 11,000 dead people getting LIHEAP grants. You familiar with that?
Secretary: No, but that is pretty typical of many of the other programs that we’re working with.
Senator John Kennedy: Some of them—they found prisoners getting grants, didn’t they? Well, they using the grants to heat their jail cell?
Senator John Kennedy: They found 1,000 federal employees getting the grants, with federal salaries that greatly exceeded the income limits. They found some of those folks living in million-dollar homes.
Senator John Kennedy: I’ve got 18 seconds. Why do we allow highly processed foods in America?
Secretary: That’s a complicated question, but it’s driven by profits, by a food industry that is making money by poisoning American kids. And they don’t do it abroad; they make the same products for Canada and for Europe that do not contain many of those chemicals.
Senator John Kennedy: You understand, Mr. Secretary, there’s nothing you can do that’s gonna make many of my Democratic colleagues happy. You get that, don’t you?
Secretary: I do understand. I’m coming to understand that, Senator.
Senator John Kennedy: Thank you.
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I’m just glad both Kennedys are who they are despite the deluded bias of some Wikipedia editor.
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Two great men, telling the truth. Democrats steaming, and we are loving it.
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