U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday he is nominating anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, putting him in charge of a massive agency that oversees everything from drug, vaccine and food safety to medical research and the social safety net programs Medicare and Medicaid. “For too…
A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration. Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods…
By Jonathan J. Cooper, Ali Swenson And Gabriel Sandoval The Associated Press Posted August 23, 2024 3:56 pm Updated August 23, 2024 4:01 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Friday he is suspending his independent presidential bid and is backing Donald Trump. Kennedy said…
