Democrats weigh RFK Jr. impeachment while courting his MAHA backers

Democrats will control Congress starting in January, and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is already on their oversight list, according to dailyindependent.com. The report says some high-ranking lawmakers have floated impeaching him, putting a rarely used weapon on the table against a sitting Cabinet secretary.

The anger has been building for two years. Kennedy's overhaul of longstanding vaccine guidance and his cuts to medical research have drawn fiery criticism from across the party, per the outlet. Those moves are what turned him into a target for the incoming majority.

But the impeachment talk runs straight into a rival strategy on the left. Many Democratic lawmakers are increasingly focused on finding common ground with Kennedy's Make America Healthy Again followers, hoping to win their political support, according to the report.

That leaves Democrats balancing two goals at once: holding Kennedy accountable for his record at Health and Human Services while keeping his MAHA base from writing them off entirely. Both tracks are set to play out once the new Congress is seated in January.