United States President-elect Donald Trump has continued to flesh out the Cabinet of his second administration by appointing noted vaccine sceptic Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Junior as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Trump said HHS would play a big role in protecting people from harmful chemicals, pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceutical products, and food additives that had contributed to the “overwhelming health crisis” in the United States.
“I am thrilled to announce Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
“Mr. Kennedy will restore these Agencies to the traditions of Gold Standard Scientific Research, and beacons of Transparency, to end the Chronic Disease epidemic, and to Make America Great and Healthy Again!”
Kennedy, whose father Robert F. Kennedy and uncle John F. Kennedy were assassinated while serving as Democrat Attorney General and President respectively in the 1960s, is an anti-vaccine activist and health conspiracy theory advocate.
The nomination of the former Democrat for this role outraged public health advocates due to his unorthodox views and Democrats who were angry he abandoned a run for the presidency to become an independent and switch his support to Trump.
It remains to be seen whether Kennedy’s nomination will be confirmed by the Senate given his controversial opinions on health and other matters.
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