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Trump Picks Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health Secretary

By Liz Essley Whyte, Andrew Restuccia and Vivian Salama

WASHINGTON—President-elect Donald Trump said he would nominate environmental lawyer and vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to serve as health and human services secretary, putting a noted critic of U.S. public policy atop the country’s vast health bureaucracy.

Kennedy has promised sweeping changes to food-and-drug regulation and government-funded scientific research, in recent days saying the Food and Drug Administration’s nutrition department needed to be eliminated and warning the agency’s employees to “pack your bags.”

Kennedy, 70 years old, abandoned his independent presidential bid in August and endorsed Trump, promising that he and the Republican would work to “make America healthy again.”

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Kennedy said on social media after his nomination that “we have a generational opportunity to bring together the greatest minds in science, medicine, industry, and government to put an end to the chronic disease epidemic.”

Earlier, in his own social-media post, Trump wrote: “For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to Public Health.”

Billionaire Elon Musk and one of the president-elect’s sons, Donald Trump Jr., both advocated behind the scenes for Trump to pick Kennedy, according to people familiar with the discussions. Trump transition team co-chair Howard Lutnick previously had said that Kennedy wouldn’t head the department if Trump won the election.


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