Joy Behar once mocked Mike Pence for praying and had to go on national television to apologize.
Now she's back, shrieking about the man dismantling the bureaucracy that made her sick in the first place.
And this time the White House didn't wait for an apology.
Joy Behar Calls RFK Jr a Heroin Addict on The View
The View co-hosts went into full meltdown mode over Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Senate testimony this week.
Kennedy had just wrapped seven straight days of congressional hearings – testifying before the Senate Finance Committee, the Senate HELP Committee, and five other panels in between.
The topic was the HHS budget for 2027.
Democrats didn't want to talk about the budget.
They wanted to attack the man.
Kennedy told senators that artificial intelligence could eventually reshape medicine so dramatically it might make the FDA's current structure irrelevant.
He gave an example: a dog owner who used AI to develop a personalized cancer treatment that cured his pet.
That sent the View ladies into orbit.
"This is our expert – somebody who does not have a medical degree, who does not have a background in science," said co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin – the show's token RINO, who reliably agrees with the left on everything.
Then Joy Behar took it somewhere uglier.
"Here you've got a guy who is in charge of our health, who is a former heroin addict," Behar shouted.
"He swam in sewage. Who does that? And he snorted cocaine off a toilet seat. This is who is in charge of your health, America. We're in a lot of trouble."
Whoopi Goldberg piled on, telling Kennedy directly: "Get out of this job. Dude, you're not qualified."
The White House Had One Thing to Say About Joy Behar
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment on Behar's attack.
White House spokesperson Kush Desai replied: "Joy Behar is an idiot."
No elaborate press statement.
Four words.
Because that's exactly what Joy Behar's opinion of the HHS Secretary is worth.
What Joy Behar Never Said About Biden's HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra
When Joe Biden nominated Xavier Becerra to run the Department of Health and Human Services in 2021, Joy Behar didn't say a word about qualifications.
Becerra was a career lawyer and politician.
Zero medical training. Zero public health experience. Zero background in running a health agency – during a global pandemic.
Senator Ted Cruz went to the Senate floor and said: "If a Republican president had nominated someone with zero health care experience, zero medical experience, zero pharmaceutical experience in the midst of a global pandemic, that Republican president would have been laughed out of the room."
Senator Tom Cotton made the same point – Becerra was a career politician with no experience in public health, large-scale logistics, or any other challenge of the pandemic.
The New York Times reported that five leading medical groups were astounded by Biden's pick and had written to urge him to appoint a qualified physician instead.
Joy Behar never mentioned any of that.
It was always about politics.
What RFK Jr Has Actually Done as HHS Secretary
While Behar was screaming on daytime television, RFK Jr. was on day seven of congressional testimony.
Seven hearings in seven business days.
He reported that HHS has negotiated drug prices, released new Dietary Guidelines, launched a Rural Health Transformation Fund, expanded nutrition education in medical schools, and worked to phase out petroleum-based food dyes from the American food supply.
He cut 20,000 positions from an agency bloated with bureaucrats who spent their careers protecting the status quo.
He is the first HHS Secretary in memory to actually take on the pharmaceutical industry.
RFK Jr. spent nearly 40 years in court fighting corrupt corporations and government agencies.
He co-founded the WaterKeeper Alliance, which now protects 2.7 million miles of waterways across 46 countries.
Joy Behar has a sociology degree from Queens College.
The White House was right.
Sources:
- Alexander Hall, "The View hosts blast RFK Jr's leadership as Joy Behar says policies are 'trying to kill us'," Fox News, April 24, 2026.
- Sen. Ted Cruz, "Sen. Cruz on the Senate Floor: Left-Wing Trial Lawyer Xavier Becerra is Woefully Unqualified to Serve as HHS Secretary," Cruz.senate.gov, March 17, 2021.
- Sen. Tom Cotton, "Xavier Becerra Nomination – Here's Why Senate Should Reject Culture Warrior for HHS Post," Cotton.senate.gov, January 21, 2021.
- PBS NewsHour, "Watch: RFK Jr. testifies on Trump's HHS budget request before Senate committees," April 22, 2026.