WASHINGTON (AP) — Calling Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a “predator” who is addicted to power, Caroline Kennedy urged the U.S. Senate in a Tuesday letter to reject the nomination of her cousin to be President Donald Trump’s health secretary.

The likely next secretary of Health and Human Services scared me with a cruel and misleading statement—and that’s the danger he poses to parents everywhere.

In a harsh letter to lawmakers considering Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination for health secretary, Ms. Kennedy called her cousin unfit for the job and a “predator” who led family members to addiction.

Caroline Kennedy wrote a blistering letter to the U.S. Senate Tuesday urging them to reject her cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination as Health and Human Services secretary. He is set to appear before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday for the first of two confirmation hearings as President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Caroline Kennedy warned senators not to confirm her “predator” cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr. when he comes up for consideration as the nation’s secretary of health and human services Wednesday. “I have known Bobby my whole life;

Caroline Kennedy warns senators about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination, questioning his ethics and views on vaccines.

Robert F. Kennedy's aspirations now rest with the Republican-controlled Senate, where he can lose only three GOP votes if all Democrats oppose him.

Some GOP senators want public commitments from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. before deciding whether to support him as the next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, signaling that President Donald Trump’s pick will have to win over uncertain Republicans in order to secure the job.

Find out more about the connection between the 35th U.S. President, who was assassinated in 1963, and President Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Republican Senators Mitch McConnell, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski are considered obvious candidates to oppose Kennedy’s nomination. All three voted against Trump’s defence secretary nominee Pete Hegseth last week when he secured senate confirmation with just a single tiebreaking vote cast by vice-president JD Vance.