Environmental lawyer and antivaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed to be an “honest public servant” if he gets confirmed as the head of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). “Together we will clean up corruption,

The vaccine skeptic's nomination is uncertain, though some Senate Republicans lined up to praise him and Trump

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis might be the only Democrat “excited” about President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to appoint RFK Jr. as secretary of Health and Human Services. In a post on X, Polis praised Kennedy as someone who “helped us defeat vaccine mandates in Colorado in 2019” and someone who will “make America healthy again by shaking up HHS and FDA.

One person said having an anti-vaxxer like Kennedy lead the Cabinet department is "like naming a flat-earther to lead NASA."

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been angling for a role in the Trump administration since he endorsed the president-elect in August.

Kennedy, an environmental lawyer, is known for his misleading and false claims on vaccines, including repeated assertions that vaccines are linked to autism.

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday announced vaccine-skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is his choice to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

President-elect Donald Trump will nominate the anti-vaccine activist and environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of Health and Human Services.

Trump nominated Kennedy for Secretary of Health and Human Services earlier in the day, a move that will likely rattle the public health community given Kennedy's long history of pushing anti-vaccine conspiracy theories and promoting medical treatments whose effectiveness has not been sufficiently proven.

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ― an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist who formerly competed against Trump for the White House ― to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Politico and CNN reported Thursday.

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