President-elect Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a marketing campaign rally in Georgia final month. Trump introduced this week that he is nominated Kennedy for the Secretary of Well being and Human Providers.
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President-elect Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a marketing campaign rally in Georgia final month. Trump introduced this week that he is nominated Kennedy for the Secretary of Well being and Human Providers.
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This week President-elect Donald Trump introduced Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his nominee to run the Division of Well being and Human Providers.
The nomination comes after Trump promised to let Kennedy “go wild on well being” throughout the marketing campaign.
Kennedy holds various controversial opinions on well being, and promotes various scientifically debunked claims like vaccines trigger autism, fluoride is poisoning the general public water system and AIDS is not attributable to the HIV virus.
Kennedy has lengthy wished to drastically remake well being and healthcare coverage in the US. Quickly, he could get his probability.
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