President-elect Donald Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be secretary of Health and Human Services Wednesday, vowing that the noted vaccine skeptic will end the “chronic disease epidemic.”
Kennedy, 70, has been a staunch supporter of Trump since suspending his independent presidential bid in August, and the president-elect had teased that he would let RFK Jr. “go wild” should the Republican nominee win the Nov. 5 election.
Despite his well-known opposition to vaccination of children, Kennedy insisted the day after Trump, 78, became the 47th president-elect that he was not going to “take away” anyone’s vaccines.
“If vaccines are working for somebody, I’m not going to take them away. People ought to have choice, and that choice ought to be informed by the best information,” he told NBC News Nov. 6. “So I’m going to make sure scientific safety studies and efficacy are out there, and people can make individual assessments about whether that product is going to be good for them.”
President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be secretary of Health and Human Services, a source familiar with the decision confirmed to The Post. Rob Schumacher / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
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