Trump taps RFK Jr. to run HHS, nominating vaccine skeptic for nation’s top health role

President-elect Trump has tapped Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime environmental lawyer and vaccine skeptic, for the nation’s top health care job, leading the Department of Health and Human Services.

Trump announced the pick on the social media platform Truth Social, and said RFK Jr. will be charged with ending what he called the nation’s chronic disease epidemic and reforming U.S. science and health agencies.

“For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to Public Health,” Trump wrote.

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