Cabinet Nominee Committees Vote Today on RFK Jr and Tulsi Gabbard

Two Senate committees are voting today on tRump’s cabinet picks for HHS and DNI, Robert Kennedy, Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard.

Scheduled at 10:00amET is the Senate Finance Committee voting on whether HHS candidate Kennedy will pass through to a full Senate vote.

A letter submitted to the U.S. Senate that states it was signed by 800 physicians in support of Kennedy was found to include the names of doctors who have had their licenses revoked, suspended or faced other discipline.

Many signees were not doctors at all.

And around 20 signees were chiropractors, a group that has been found to support Kennedy’s anti-vax non-profit in 2019 with about one-sixth of its revenue.

A woman who worked with the anti-vaccine nonprofit run by RFK Jr. accused him of sexual misconduct and was paid a nearly $1 million settlement as part of a nondisclosure agreement in late 2020, Mediaite reports. www.mediaite.com/politics/exc…

Republicans Against Trumpism (@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social) 2025-02-04T04:25:45.255Z

GQP Sen. Bill Cassidy is apparently the vote to watch. A medical doctor, Cassidy has boasted openly on his official webpage of an effort he created to vaccinate 36,000 children against hepatitis B.

The Senate Intelligence Committee is scheduled to vote on Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination to be the next Director of National Intelligence at 2:00pmET.

When asked by Sen. Jerry Moran, a Kansas GQPer, whether Russia would “get a pass” from her, Tulsi said she “was offended by the question.”

When asked about her 2017 trip to see Assad, she defended her work as “diplomacy.”

The vote will be behind closed doors, but we know that Susan Collins has concerns no longer has concerns and said she will support the Trump/Musk/Assad/Putin/Snowden asset.

Seriously, did ANYONE expect anything different from Susan Collins? mainemorningstar.com/briefs/sen-c…

Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) 2025-02-03T22:30:52.894Z