U.S. Sen. Angela Alsobrooks sent a Facebook post Wednesday calling for the resignation or removal of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The Maryland Democrat’s Facebook post reads, “The time is now. Kennedy must resign or be fired. End of discussion.”
Alsobrooks, a fierce critic of Kennedy, has called for the health secretary’s resignation for over a year.
Sen. Alsobrooks’ post on Facebook Monday.
In September 2025, a group of more than 20 senators, including Alsobrooks, called for Kennedy’s removal at Health and Human Services, saying his actions undermined public health in the United States.
Alsobrooks filed a resolution of disapproval that September shortly after Kennedy testified during a lengthy hearing over upheaval at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and changes to COVID-19 vaccine guidance.
Alsobrooks has continued to call for Kennedy’s removal since she filed that resolution. In February, Alsobrooks and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, released a report chronicling his first year as secretary and have continued to update the report with Kennedy’s actions.
During the September 2025 hearing, Kennedy said he didn’t know how many people had died from COVID-19.
Virginia Sen. Mark Warner asked Kennedy at the hearing if he accepted that a million Americans have died from COVID-19, to which Kennedy responded, “I don’t know how many died.”
“You’re the secretary of Health and Human Services. You don’t have any idea how many Americans died from COVID?” Warner replied.
“I don’t think anybody knows that, because there was so much data chaos coming out of the CDC and there were so many perverse incentives,” Kennedy said.
At the time, approximately 1.2 million Americans had died from the virus, according to both the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the World Health Organization.
Before the hearing, Alsobrooks called for Kennedy’s resignation during a rally on Capitol Hill.
“RFK claims that he wants to make America healthy again, but from day one he has systematically dismantled HHS through his anti-science, quack agenda,” Alsobrooks said at the rally.
Alsobrooks also accused Kennedy of spreading anti-vaccine disinformation.
“He has undermined public trust in the systems, institutions, research and public health officials that protect our safety and well-being,” she said.
Maryland Senator Angela Alsobrooks again called for RFK Jr. to resign, and Virginia Sen. Mark Warner asked Kennedy pointed questions during a heated Senate hearing. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.
