Eight months into his second presidency, some of Donald Trump’s cabinet-level picks have proven to be outstanding — in particular his selections of Chris Wright for Secretary of Energy and Doug Burgum for Secretary of the Interior — befitting the reputation he seeks to cultivate for himself as hiring the “best people.” A few of his other selections, however, have been more questionable. This has necessitated that the president intervene when these less orthodox cabinet members overstep their roles, in order to bring them back in line with the agenda he was elected to carry out.
Take, for instance, the negative rhetoric surrounding pesticide use coming from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Make America Healthy Again commission. While the commission has been tasked with advising and assisting the President on addressing the childhood chronic disease crisis — a cause we can all get behind — a recently released report made dangerous claims that would completely upend the agricultural community if taken at face value.
