A majority of Americans disapprove of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s job performance and the federal government’s evolving vaccine policy, according to a poll released this month by the nonpartisan health organization KFF.
The Trump administration released its strategy to Make America Healthy Again recently, which officials hope will reduce chronic diseases and align federal policy with their beliefs.
Erin McCanlies was listening to the radio one morning in April when she heard Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promising to find the cause of autism by September. The secretary of Health and Human Services said he believed an environmental toxin was responsible for the dramatic increase in the condition and vowed to gather “the most credible scientists from all over the world” to solve the mystery.
The Make America Healthy Again commission, created earlier this year by President Donald Trump, released its first report recently, calling on the administration and lawmakers to improve the well-being of the country’s children.
State legislators and medical experts in Ohio are decrying the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday he plans to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services, another controversial candidate who could face a challenging confirmation process in the U.S. Senate given his non-scientific beliefs about public health, including his anti-vaccine stance.
