Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) filed articles of impeachment against Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Wednesday, accusing him of abusing the powers of his office and undermining public health, putting Americans’ lives at risk.

He “has got to go,” Stevens said in a video announcing the impeachment articles. In an accompanying press statement, she said Kennedy, who rose to prominence as an ardent anti-vaccine activist, “has turned his back on science, on public health, and on the American people—spreading conspiracies and lies, driving up costs, and putting lives at risk.” She called him the “biggest self-created threat to our health and safety.”

It is very unlikely that an impeachment push will gain traction in the Republican-controlled Congress. No other Democratic lawmakers are backing the articles.

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    Filed by a Democrat so DOA in the current House. Flip it in '26 and we’ll talk.

    Flip the House AND Senate and it might actually happen.

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      Call me a nihilist whatever, but nothing matters until the mid-terms because once it’s clear the elections are rigged, then shits going to get a little hotter for everyone.

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    This POS and the POS that put him there - Pedonald - should be held responsible for all the lives they are endangering.

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    His defamation of the efficacy/safety of acetaminophen has been quite APAP smear.

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    I pray to God and the baby Jesus that I don’t believe in that he will be stripped of power and removed for any office that allows him to make decisions on policy.

    Or any decisions. At all… Even outside the office. Him mom should lay out his clothing for the day so he doesn’t have to decide anything.

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      stripped of power and removed for any office that allows him to make decisions

      In any other sane rational country, people like RFK and Laura Loomer would be under psychiatric observation in a hospital, but in the US they are made super rich and given unlimited power. Very very strange country.

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    I thought the Kennedys had learned about the negative side effects from lobotomies after Rosemary. Then this guy popped up.

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    I currently live in a Republican district. I’d like to call my representative to have her support this, but I won’t. Not only am I not a big donor, which means I can be safely ignored, but my representative is in the cult of Republican-ism. So, ontop of her ignoring me because I am not a big donor, but she will ignore me because Republicans are worshipping at the golden statue of tRump.

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      What else can they do? I think what’s despicable is that no other dems are backing this. At least all dems should back it, so that it’s 100% visible for everyone who is responsible for children dying from preventable diseases.

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        Democrats are in the minority, they literally have 0 power to move anything like this forward.

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      Get caught trying, it’s way better than doing literally nothing. Where are all the other house dems on this?