Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave his first speech as an official member of the Donald Trump cabinet that revealed his plan to restore the health of Americans.
However, the former Democrat does not get a warm reception in his new role as secretary of the Ministry of Health and Human Services.
DOGE has performed a series of dismissals at the agencies that under the Purview of RFK Jr. traps.
And various officials at senior level at top agencies under HHS resigned or stopped in protest after being sworn in last week.
The head of the food division of the Food and Drug Administration resigned on Monday after 89 employees were fired at his desk.
Jim Jones, who, as FDA Food Division Head, led the agency to prohibit Food Dye Red No. 3 Last month, called the widespread and 'random' cuts for his resignation.
There were also reports on Tuesday that the centers for sickness control -Adjunct -director Nirav Shah unveil also jerks.
It is unclear whether the new HHS secretary is willing to immediately replace these two top vacancies.
In the meantime, RFK ignored Jr. The dismissal and revealed part of his priorities during his first speech – including the national approach to the health epidemic and the investigation of every aspect of medicines, drugs and food from Americans.
Health and Human Services -Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. On Tuesday, his first speech in his new role to staff members at HHS
The new HHS head spoke about his former conviction that vaccines led to a peak in autism cases in children, investigated and investigated by 'impartial science'.
He criticized many of those views during the Senate confirmation process.
Kennedy mentioned the many areas he wants HHS to 'investigate', in particular standards for foods, medicines, medicines and pesticides that he thinks they have been overlooked or get a pass in the past.
'Some of the Possible Factors We Will Investigate Were Formerly Taboo or Insufficiently Scrutinized-The Child Hood Vaccine Schedule, Electromagnetic Radiation, Gyphosate, Other Pesticides, Ultra-Processed Food Additives, Artiatric Foods, Additives, Artificial Foods, Additives, Artificial Foods, Additives, ARTISRICIC, Pfoas, microplastics, “said Kennedy. “Nothing will be forbidden.”
“What faith or suspicion I have expressed in the past, I am willing to subject them all to the control of unbiased science,” he went on. “That will be our template: impartial science.”
“That is something that will make us all proud of this agency and on our role in restoring American health.”
RFK Jr. was a controversial choice for HHS Secretary.
He was not only a lifelong democrat, he is also an anti-vaxxer who has a number of quite strong beliefs about how food, drugs and other substances should be checked by HHS.
Many senators interviewed Kennedy about his vaccination during his confirmation hearings.
He insisted that he would not impose his personal positions on the entire US through policy at HHS.
But it seems that his confirmation – and the policy that is implemented at HHS under the Trump administration – already have a major influence on the department.
Kennedy was sworn as the HHS secretary of President Donald Trump during an Oval Office ceremony in the White House on Thursday 13 February
Only a few days after RFK Jr. was confirmed and massive shootings took place at several HHS agencies, the head of the FDA Food Division Head Jim Jones (Left) resigned and the next day the Acting Principal Adjunct director of the CDC Nirav Shah (right) also finished
Last week 3,600 newer HHS employees who were still fired during their probationary period.
The dismissals were mainly among employees of the CDC and the National Institutes of Health. But 89 employees of the FDA's Food Division were fired into what their director Jim Jones called 'random' cuts.
Jones resigned on Monday.
“I looked forward to working on continuing the department of the department to improve the health of Americans by reducing diet-related chronic diseases and risks of chemicals in food,” he said in a letter of dismissal of acting FDA Commissioner Sara Brenner .
But he claimed that, given the “contempt for the new government, for the people” who needed these changes, it would be “fruitless for me to continue in this role.”
On Tuesday, reports from the Acting Principal Deputy director of the CDC, Nirav Shah, also came.
