President-elect Donald Trump has started to make appointments to his future cabinet, and many are waiting to see what role Trump will have for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his one-time competition for president and current ally.
After all, Trump announced at a rally in late October that he would let Kennedy “go wild” on healthcare in the country. “I’m gonna let him go wild on health. I’m gonna let him go wild on the food.
I’m gonna let him go wild on medicines,” Trump said . Kennedy later said that Trump “asked me to end the chronic disease epidemic in this country. And he said, ‘I want to see results, measurable results in the diminishment of chronic disease within two years.
’ And I said, ‘Mr. President, I will do that.’” Kennedy is a longtime anti-vaccine activist who has repeatedly expressed views about health that conflict with scientific evidence.
He has created a plan endorsed by Trump called “ Make America Healthy Again ” (MAHA), which is a broad-ranging series of proposed policies that the politician claims online is “more powerful than Wall Street, Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Food and the War Machine.” It’s not clear what official role Kennedy will have in the second Trump administration, if any. But there have been whispers of him being nominated for a top position at a federal health agency, like head of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (C.
