The Health and Human Services Department stood by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attacked his policies.

Clinton appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Wednesday, lamenting that “one of the biggest concerns is what we are doing in our own country to put our own people’s health at risk: dismantling public health [and] listening to literally crackpot ideas about what’s happening.”

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“When I hear people like, you know, Kennedy and others talking about getting back to a time when we aren’t vaccinating, we’re drinking raw milk — And people didn’t live,” Clinton said. “I mean, this is so crazy, it’s so wrongheaded, it’s so shortsighted, and it’s going to cause deaths.”

Since Kennedy was nominated to the position, Clinton noted the unusual deaths caused by whooping cough and measles in the United States. Kennedy publicly recommended the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine following a second death in Texas.

“When your president says something, when Kennedy, who’s the secretary of HHS, says something, what are you supposed to believe?” Clinton continued.

HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon took issue with Clinton’s segment.

“Secretary Kennedy refuses to accept the failed status quo that has eroded public trust in public health institutions and left Americans sicker year after year. Instead, he has remained laser-focused on gold-standard science, radical transparency, and tackling the chronic disease epidemic head-on,” Nixon told the Washington Examiner.

Nixon said, “It is telling that these criticisms come from the same failed presidential candidate who once dismissed over half the country as ‘deplorable.’” This was a reference to Clinton’s appearance at an LGBT fundraiser gala in 2016, when, while campaigning against Trump, Clinton suggested “you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the ‘basket of deplorables.’”

“The American people voted for the restoration of their decision-making power, and that is exactly what HHS is delivering. The Secretary remains focused on the work ahead and will not be distracted by partisan attacks,” Nixon said.

Clinton also said, “Too many Americans are listening to this very destructive, anti-science tirade that we’re hearing from this administration.”

“It’s going to cost lives,” Clinton said. “It already is costing lives.”

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Clinton’s remarks come days after Kennedy joined President Donald Trump in a press conference on recommendations against taking Tylenol while pregnant. While the White House’s stance on the matter has bristled some, this is the same advice the company itself provided eight years ago on X.

HHS shared a screenshot of the post on its X account on Wednesday.