RFK Jr. expected to be tapped to lead Department of Health and Human Services
President-elect Trump is expected to choose Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
A single source from the transition team who asked to be identified as “familiar to the matter” confirmed via phone call that Trump will name RFK Jr. to HHS.
The announcement comes just over a week after Trump won back the presidency.
Former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump, shake hands during a campaign rally in Glendale, Ariz., Aug. 23. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)
Kennedy, who has been a key figure in the Trump campaign since endorsing him, was asked about his potential role in the next White House and whether he would begin “clearing out the top level federal service workers that are currently at the FDA and the CDC.”
He continued, “In some categories, their entire departments, like the nutrition department in the FDA, they have to go. They’re not doing their job. They’re not protecting our kids. Why do we have Froot Loops in this country that have 18 or 19 ingredients, and you go to Canada, and it’s got two or three?”
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