Robert Kennedy, Jr. was confirmed today, by the Senate, as the Secretary of H.H.S. Tulsi Gabbard was confirmed yesterday, as the Director of National Intelligence.
Mitch McConnell was the only Republican Senator to vote against Kennedy and Gabbard. He had also voted against the confirmation of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (along with Republicans Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins).
Andy Borowitz--the well-known satirist/humorist--wrote about Kennedy today, in his column "The Borowitz Report," which appears on the Substack platform. (For a number of years,"The Borowitz Report" had been featured in The New Yorker.)
The heading of today's darkly comic piece said this:
RFK Jr.'s Confirmation Hailed By National Alliance of Funeral Directors
Mr. Borowitz wrote:
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s confirmation as Health and Human Services Secretary on Thursday received a rousing thumbs-up from some of his most prominent supporters, the National Alliance of Funeral Directors.
"For years, the funeral industry has suffered as a result of the Democratic Party's unabashed anti-death agenda," the group said in an official statement. "We are confident that Secretary Kennedy will make death great again."
