Gizmodo is now openly campaigning for Congress to impeach HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — not because he committed any crime, but because he's threatening the pharmaceutical-industrial complex that's been feeding at the public trough for decades.
The stakes for ordinary Americans are straightforward: if the permanent bureaucracy can remove a Cabinet secretary through impeachment over policy disagreements, then your vote means nothing. The agencies answer to themselves, not to you.
Gizmodo quotes Colette Delawalla, president and CEO of "Stand Up for Science," a nonprofit formed to fight Trump administration cuts to federal research funding, vowing to pursue articles of impeachment. "First on our list is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who must be removed and held accountable for the damage he's inflicted on the public," Delawalla told Gizmodo. Notice what's missing from that sentence: any specific law broken, any constitutional violation alleged. Just "damage" — defined by the people whose funding Kennedy threatens.
Gizmodo itself acknowledges that impeachment is "intended only as a measure to remove public officials from office for grave acts of misconduct or abuses of power" and risks being "misused to settle political scores." That's exactly what happened with Alejandro Mayorkas: House Republicans impeached him over border policy disputes, and the Senate dismissed both articles in roughly three hours because they didn't allege conduct rising "to the level of a high crime or misdemeanor."
The case against Kennedy amounts to this: he's pursued policies the establishment doesn't like. Gizmodo claims he has "gutted the country's public health infrastructure" and "emboldened medical charlatans." They say the White House fired former CDC chief Susan Monarez for opposing his agenda. Even on measles — the outbreak Gizmodo calls the worst in over 30 years — they concede Kennedy "has recommended measles vaccination numerous times." His offense is also endorsing unproven treatments and questioning official death counts. That's dissent, not impeachment material.
What this is really about is money. "Stand Up for Science" exists to protect federal research funding — billions in taxpayer dollars flowing to institutions with deep pharmaceutical industry ties. The CDC-FDA revolving door, where regulators cycle into industry consulting jobs and back, has been documented for years. Kennedy threatens that entire ecosystem.
Meanwhile, actual public health threats get handled without federal drama. A rabid raccoon in Charleston County exposed one person this week — the 99th confirmed rabid animal in South Carolina this year, per the S.C. Department of Public Health. Their advice was simple: vaccinate your pets, stay away from wild animals. No sprawling bureaucracy required, no impeachment necessary.
The permanent class is panicking because for the first time in memory, an HHS secretary is asking questions they can't answer with a press release. When lobbying nonprofits demand impeachment before any legal threshold is met, that's not accountability — it's self-preservation. The question is whether Congress will serve the voters or the funded.
