Comedian Bill Maher on Friday echoed calls for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign.
"It’s just – he’s got to go," Maher told viewers during the Friday episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher.”
Maher described Kennedy as “nutty” after a series of removals of top advisers and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Susan Monarez.
Sharp criticism for Kennedy’s leadership arose after his Thursday testimony before the Senate Committee on Finance, during which he skirted questions about deaths tied to the COVID-19 pandemic and made false claims about access to vaccines.
The secretary’s nephew, former Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.), said his uncle used the hearing to “dismiss science, mislead the public, sideline experts and sow confusion.”
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