President-elect Donald Trump said he will nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nephew of former President John F. Kennedy and a prominent vaccine skeptic, to be the next health and human services secretary, a move with major implications for the federal public health infrastructure. The nomination is likely to spur a major confirmation battle in the Senate.
Trump said in a tweet that Kennedy will restore federal health agencies to “the traditions of Gold Standard Scientific Research, and beacons of Transparency, to end the Chronic Disease epidemic, and to Make America Great and Healthy Again!”
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