Trump’s potential nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has laid a grand vision for the country’s top health and science agencies.
Several of Trump’s closest allies have reportedly recommended RFK Jr. for the position. The Independent Party-aligned Environmental lawyer also stated that Trump would “fight like hell” to make him the HHS secretary.
Meanwhile, RFK Jr. has outlined how he plans to streamline the country’s health and scientific agencies in line with Trump’s initiative to end corruption and conflict of interest and free the public health institutions from “corporate capture” by large pharmaceutical companies. Three-quarters of the FDA’s budget for drug approvals comes from pharmaceutical companies.
RFK Jr.’s proposed changes would affect the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Under the Biden administration, these institutions departed from evidence-based, gold-standard science to become political tools for pushing the Left’s pseudo-science-based political agenda.
In May 2024, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) published a report detailing NIH’s blatant lack of transparency.
Some of the shortcomings the report identified include the