Politico February 3, 2025
Daniel Payne

As a doctor, Cassidy is troubled by RFK Jr. As a politician, he has reason to support him anyway.

Bill Cassidy is deeply torn over what to do about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

As a doctor who once prescribed life-saving vaccines, Cassidy is troubled about putting someone in charge of the nation’s health agencies who has claimed, in defiance of the scientific consensus, that the shots are dangerous.

But as a senator facing reelection next year in deep red Louisiana, a state President Donald Trump won by more than 22 points, he has a lot of reasons to vote “yes” for Trump’s choice to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Cassidy chairs the Senate committee in charge of...

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