Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on Thursday excoriated Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., over his complaints that he was being “jerked around” by his agency, saying Whitehouse had the means to contact him personally and never did so.
“I’m being jerked around by your bureaucracy. I would like it to end and get some progress,” Whitehouse told Kennedy during his Senate testimony.
Kennedy Jr. was having none of it, however.
“Senator, you raised this during my confirmation hearing… you raised something that makes a lot of sense,” he said. “I said to you at that time ‘call me and we’d love to come talk about this.'”
“You have my cell phone! You can call me any time! I have never heard from you in seven months,” Kennedy quipped. “I would love to meet with you.”
Whitehouse cheekily replied, “we’ll try. You have 30,000 employees. They could have reached out to me. They know where I live.”
Ben Whedon is the Chief Political Correspondent at Just the News. Follow him on X.
