Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently revealed that Republicans in the Senate were actually issuing threats to not confirm his nominees for carrying out the Make America Healthy Again agenda, which many conservatives have pointed out is just one more reason that the GOP likely lost control over both chambers of Congress in the midterm elections.
Kennedy spoke about the difficulties he faced getting appointees and moving the agenda forward during a press conference. “Most of them do not want change. Most of them do not want change, and so what we were doing was very disruptive. And we’ve got a lot of people simplify it and say it was one person or one industry is not what was happening,” Kennedy said.
“It was coming from everywhere. But one of the places it was coming from was the Senate and from the Republicans on the Senate,” he told members of the press during the conference. He then stated that every time he attempted to move forward with something “robust” he would receive threatening calls from Republicans.
“Every time I tried to do something robust, I would get calls saying, ‘If you do that, we’re not going to confirm your appointees.’ And so I said to the group at HHS, I said, ‘You know, the Democrats, no matter how great the appointee is, not one vote will go to them.’ We know that because that’s what’s happened in the past,” he continued.
“Not one of my appointees ever gotten a single Democratic vote. The Senate no longer has any leverage over me, and you know, and that’s a big deal. And then we have Stephen Miller in, who’s a friend of our movement. And I don’t think anything is going to get in our way now,” Kennedy further elaborated. He then said that was the reason for publishing a tweet about the situation.
“That’s why I said I said I put out a tweet at one point. I said Stephanie, Stephanie was asking me what I’d say, and I say, I said just write, release the kraken because that’s that’s what we’re about to do. And so stand by. Thank you for getting us here. God bless you all, and let’s go get this job done. Thank you,” Kennedy concluded.
A post sharing a clip of the press conference featured a number of responses from other conservatives who were disappointed to hear of the difficulties Kennedy had from Senate Republicans. “The @SenateGOP
have done everything in their power for two years to thwart Trump’s and the people’s agenda. We MUST get rid of incumbent uniparty trash and start finding their replacements running for re-election in 2028 NOW,” one user said.
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“If Trump never did anything for us but give us MAHA, it would be the greatest thing a President has done in our lifetimes, other than him rededicating our nation back to God!” another user wrote. “Wish this courage and tenacity of @SecKennedy would rub off on our Congressman. Instead, you still have a House and Senate full of wheelers and dealers to the benefit of themselves, their donors and their campaign funding…NOT the citizens of this great country and their future health. We’ve witnessed for 2 years now how their public rhetoric never matches their actions,” a user commented.
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. says Senate Republicans were THREATENING not to confirm his nominees for carrying out the MAHA Agenda.
“The Senate no longer has any leverage over me…”
“Republicans in the Senate, every time I tried to do something robust, I'd get calls saying, ‘if you…
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 11, 2026
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