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Kennedy vows to Make America Healthy Again.
KENNEDY SWORN IN
President Donald Trump has officially sworn in Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services at a press conference at The White House.
Kennedy will now be in control of $1.7 trillion in federal spending, vaccine recommendations and food safety, as well as health insurance programs for roughly half the country.
“Thank you, President Trump, for your leadership, your confidence in me, and your deep concern for the health of the American people,” Secretary Kennedy said.
“You have truly heard the calls of the millions of mothers who simply want the tools – and the truth – so they can make informed decisions for their children.”
Kennedy has been one of the nation’s most prominent pro-choice vaccine sceptics for years and has frequently shared groundbreaking information about the so-called safety and efficacy of vaccines.
To get the job, Kennedy was interrogated about his views on vaccines, controversial statements about race and Lyme disease, and gaps in understanding about what the role of the Health and Human Services secretary entails.
Throughout Kennedy’s two days of confirmation hearings, senators on both sides of the aisle questioned Kennedy about his years of advocacy against vaccine mandates. They mentioned:
- Kennedy’s chairmanship for Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine group. (Kennedy resigned from the Children’s Health Defense board in December.)
- His visit to Samoa in 2019, as chairman of Children’s Health Defense, as part of an anti-measles-vaccine movement.
- His ongoing financial involvement in a lawsuit against Merck, the maker of the HPV vaccine.
- His 2021 book, “The Measles Book: Thirty-Five Secrets the Government and the Media Aren’t Telling You about Measles and the Measles Vaccine.” Kennedy promotes vitamin A and chicken soup as alternative measles treatments in the book.
- His belief Black and white Americans should have different vaccine regimens.
He was also questioned about financial incentives, leading to a classic moment with Bernie Sanders.
Nearly all Republicans fell in line behind Trump despite hesitancy over Kennedy’s views on vaccines, voting 52-48 to elevate the modern face of one of America’s most storied political — and Democratic — families to Secretary of the Health and Human Services Department. Democrats unanimously opposed Kennedy.
In a statement Thursday after being confirmed, Kennedy emphasized the importance of ridding the department of “corruption” and vowed to “provide Americans with transparency” so they can make individual health decisions.
“I look forward to working with the more than 80,000 employees at HHS to free the agencies from the smothering cloud of corporate capture so they can pursue their mission to make Americans once again the healthiest people on Earth,” Kennedy said.
So, what is on the agenda?
WHAT’S ON THE CARDS
Kennedy will now oversee the operations of the Affordable Care Act, Medicare and Medicaid.
Though Trump has moved away from seeking to fully repeal Obamacare, it remains to be seen whether he and his health officials will release a plan to improve the law, as Trump promised on the campaign trail.
Kennedy would also be involved in any changes Trump and congressional Republicans attempt to make to Medicaid, which provides health care coverage for low-income Americans.
In Trump’s first term, the agency tried to institute work requirements, which was largely blocked in court, and lawmakers unsuccessfully sought to reduce the program’s funding.
Kennedy has gained broad support from his campaign to clean up America’s food system. He has promised to ban synthetic food dyes and to take on seed oils in our food system, saying “it’s time to make frying oil tallow again.”
During his hearing, Kennedy said his views on food regulation will not clash with Trump’s.
“If you like a McDonald’s cheeseburger or a Diet Coke, which my boss loves, you should be able to get them,” Kennedy said as the room erupted in laughter at his reference to President Donald Trump.
“If you want to eat Hostess Twinkies, you should be able to do that, but you should know what the impacts are on your family and on your health.”
“Something is poisoning the American people, and we know that the primary culprit is our changing food supply, the switch to highly chemical-intensive processed foods,” he added.
At the beginning of his testimony in January, Kennedy also said his six children had all been vaccinated. “News reports claim that I am anti-vaccine,” he said. “All of my kids are vaccinated.”
Senators cited a 2020 video in which Kennedy said he wished his children were not vaccinated. “I would do anything for that,” he said in the video for Children’s Health Defense. “I would pay anything to be able to do that.”
“I support the measles vaccine. I support the polio vaccine. I will do nothing as HHS secretary that makes it difficult or discourages people from taking either of those vaccines,” Kennedy said during the hearing.
“Every medicine has people who are sensitive to them, including vaccines.”
Will RFK Jr. be the ‘night in shining armour that the United States needs to clean it up?
This remains to be seen. But it appears he may be someone who seeks to have an equal balance of information being shared, information that sees alerts to the risks of foods, medicines, and vaccines — without banning them.
Immediately following the ceremony, President Trump with Secretary Kennedy by his side, signed the Establishing the President’s Make America Healthy Again Commission Executive Order to investigate and address the root causes of America’s escalating health crisis, with a focus on childhood chronic disease.
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Brilliant. I have followed this man since the beginning of Covid,and he always made so much sense. I hate the way the media has distorted things to make him an appear to be an anti vaxer. He’s simply against vaccines that aren’t thoroughly tested before we were given them. The pharmaceuticals pre Regan, were held accountable if things went wrong with their vaccines.They were rigorous in their testing before they were allowed on the market.Since that time they are not, and we are seeing the results of that now.
wonderful wonderful news!!!!!
The only thing he’ll be prescribing is Hopium® As with all Western countries, the only way to improve your own health is to extricate yourself from the system. There’s no such thing as ‘public health’. That concept alone plays into the ‘contagion’ narrative. I’m not discounting the work he has done previously with Children’s Health Defence, but I can’t see how he’s planning on draining the the ‘corporate health’ swamp – there’s far too much money at stake, money that pays his political salary.
Have to agree with Hamish. I have been a solid supporter of Children’s Health Defense since 2020, and even reviewed RFK Jr’s Fauci book…very favourably, which he appreciated. However, I was dismayed by his strong pro-Zionist stance, which emerged soon after he announced his Presidential run. Bizarrely, “Rabbi” Schmuley seems to be a close advisor. And a couple of weeks ago, RFK Jr appeared to completely backtrack on all the good things he said via CHD for the previous five years. As Patrick Henningsen commented on the “Sunday Wire”, “He threw CHD under a bus!”
“Hopium” folk are saying this was just so that he could get the Human Services job, upon which he will reduce the ridiculous CDC childhood vax schedule massively, etc. Let’s see what happens. There is BIG money in keeping US (and the rest of “the West”) unhealthy, let alone “the control factor”. That’s what he is up against.