Former Vice President Mike Pence’s nonprofit organization is asking Republican senators to vote against Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services, citing his past stances on abortion.
Advancing American Freedom, the policy organization Pence founded in 2023, sent a letter to the Republican caucus asking them to “reject the nomination” of Kennedy, a former Democrat selected by President-elect Donald Trump to lead the federal agency that oversees the FDA and CDC, as well as providing funding for Planned Parenthood.
“As a presidential candidate, RFK Jr. expressed support for abortion on-demand up until birth, a position completely out of step with the strong, pro-life record of the first Trump Administration,” reads the letter signed by Tim Chapman and Marc Short, the organization’s president and chairman respectively.