Washington’s anger over the corrosion of American institutions was palpable on Thursday as the nation’s most powerful skeptic, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was on Capitol Hill.
Ahead of Thursday’s meeting of the Senate Finance Committee, Democrats were clearly energized. The mass firings at Health and Human Services (HHS), as well as a seemingly political takeover of top brass at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), elicited scathing criticism from a party which (due to unified Republican majorities) has been largely unable to do much else.
