DENVER — Colorado's Democratic governor, Jared Polis, immediately cheered President-election Donald Trump's decision Thursday to pick Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead America's health agencies as the next secretary of the U.
S. Department of Health and Human Services. In a lengthy post on X, Polis said he was "excited by the news," and a played off Trump's slogan, writing "make American healthy again.
" Kennedy has a long history of false and misleading claims about vaccines, including that vaccines cause autism, an assertion at odds with the evidence from decades of research. I’m excited by the news that the President-Elect will appoint @RobertKennedyJr to @HHSGov . He helped us defeat vaccine mandates in Colorado in 2019 and will help make America healthy again by shaking up HHS and FDA.
I hope he leans into personal choice on vaccines rather than...
pic.twitter.com/cILtTYplcn — Jared Polis (@jaredpolis) November 14, 2024 It's quite a change from Polis's position three months ago, when he referred to Kennedy on X saying he was "Not sure how bringing back Measles and bringing back Polio makes anyone more healthy.
" Not sure how bringing back Measles and bringing back Polio makes anyone more healthy...
https://t.co/M2ihZHa68O — Jared Polis (@jaredpolis) August 25, 2024 Democratic State Senator Kyle Mullica told 9NEWS Thursday that he was not on Polis's side in praising Kennedy's nomination. "When we have respected leaders, like our governor giving credibility to that vaccin.
