Trump chooses anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

82% : He and Trump have since become good friends, with Kennedy frequently receiving loud applause at Trump's rallies.
56% : Kennedy, he said, would "Make America Great and Healthy Again!"Kennedy, a former Democrat who ran as an independent in this year´s presidential race, abandoned his bid after striking a deal to give Trump his endorsement with a promise to have a role in health policy in the administration.
52% : President-elect Donald Trump says he will nominate anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, putting him in charge of a massive agency that oversees everything from drug, vaccine and food safety to medical research and the social safety net programs Medicare and Medicaid.
44% : It houses the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Medicare and Medicaid programs and the National Institutes of Health.Kennedy´s anti-vaccine nonprofit group, Children´s Health Defense, currently has a lawsuit pending against a number of news organizations, among them The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines.
23% : "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 said in a post on his Truth Social site announcing the appointment.
22% : Trump pushed for fewer inspections of the meat industry, for example.Kennedy´s stance on vaccines has also made him a controversial figure among Democrats and some Republicans, raising question about his ability to get confirmed, even in a GOP-controlled Senate.

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