Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
The Public Record
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Trump administration; environmental lawyer and 2024 independent presidential candidate.
Secretary Kennedy has been working hard to ensure that the critical functions under NIOSH remain intact.
Our agency was asked to make very, very serious budget cuts that were going to be painful. Some of them should not have been made, and that was one that should not have, and I reversed it.
What this reorganization is meant to do is to eliminate the redundancies, to streamline the agency, and to reorient it so that we are trying to make America healthy.
The federal government's position, my position, is that people should get the measles vaccine.
We aren’t just reducing bureaucratic sprawl. We are realigning the organization with its core mission and our new priorities in reversing the chronic disease epidemic.
Secretary Kennedy has been working hard to ensure that the critical functions under NIOSH remain intact.
It makes no sense to have it in our water supply. And I'm very, very proud of this state for being the first state to ban it. And I hope many more will come.
Casey articulates better than any American the North Star of a country where we have eliminated diabetes, heart disease, and obesity through prioritizing metabolic health.
If we made that so that Medicaid, Medicare paid for it, and that private insurance companies had to pay for it, we would double the cost of health insurance to most employers in this country. And that would really be destructive.
Kennedy has downplayed the efficacy of the measles shot in favor of alternative treatments amid the worst outbreak in decades.
For too long, our food system has relied on synthetic, petroleum-based dyes that offer no nutritional value and pose unnecessary health risks.
We're removing these dyes and approving safe, natural alternatives to protect families and support healthier choices.
Right now the big impediment is really price. And we're negotiating that with the drug companies.
If we made that so that Medicaid, Medicare paid for it, and that private insurance companies had to pay for it, we would double the cost of health insurance to most employers in this country.





