Robert F. Kennedy Jr. mentioned Monday that former President Trump has promised him “control” of public well being companies, together with the Division of Well being and Human Companies (HHS) and the Division of Agriculture (USDA), ought to he win a second time period subsequent week, in line with a video seen by The Hill.
“The key that … President Trump has promised me is — is control of the public health agencies, which are HHS and its subagencies, CDC, FDA, NIH and a few others, and then also the USDA, which is … key to making America healthy,” Kennedy mentioned within the video. “Because we’ve got to get off of seed oils, and we’ve got to get off of pesticide intensive agriculture.”
Kennedy suspended his personal long-shot presidential marketing campaign in August and endorsed Trump. Throughout his endorsement, Kennedy pledged that if he had been “given the chance to fix the chronic disease crisis and reform our food production … within two years, we will watch chronic disease burden lift dramatically.”
Kennedy now serves on Trump’s transition group and has turn out to be a marketing campaign surrogate. He has been telling voters that the forty fifth president will “make America healthy again.”
Kennedy, a longtime purveyor of anti-vaccine messaging who based the anti-vaccine group Youngsters’s Well being Protection, has been talking extra insistently in current months about kids’s well being and fixing the issues of power childhood illnesses.
The Democrat-turned-independent has been lobbying Trump for a task in his doable subsequent administration. HHS oversees 13 separate companies — together with the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, Meals and Drug Administration and the Nationwide Institutes of Well being — and Kennedy has lengthy argued they’re in determined want of reform.
Trump has mentioned he would put Kennedy on a panel that might examine “the decades-long increase in chronic health problems, including autoimmune disorders, autism, obesity, infertility and many more.”
Throughout a marketing campaign rally Sunday in New York Metropolis, Trump mentioned he would let Kennedy “go wild on food” and “go wild on medicines” if he wins in November.
The Trump marketing campaign didn’t deny that the previous president promised Kennedy management. Trump has pledged Kennedy would have a task in his administration however has not been particular.
“No formal selections about Cupboard and personnel have been made, nevertheless, President Trump has mentioned he’ll work alongside passionate voices like RFK Jr. to Make America Wholesome Once more by offering households with secure meals and ending the power illness epidemic plaguing our youngsters,” Karoline Leavitt, the Trump marketing campaign’s nationwide press secretary, mentioned in an announcement.
