Trump chooses vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for health secretary

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

79% : After ending his own presidential campaign in December 2023, Burgum endorsed Trump and became an outspoken supporter, appearing on TV news shows and at rallies and other events.
65% : The two campaigned together extensively during the race's final stretch, and Trump made clear he intended to give Kennedy a major public health role.
59% : Trump also announced Thursday that he will nominate Jay Clayton, who served as chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission during his first term, to serve as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.0
55% : The resulting vaccines were widely credited, including by Trump himself, with saving lives.
49% : Trump during his first term launched Operation Warp Speed, an effort to speed the production and distribution of a vaccine to combat COVID-19.
46% : The Republican served in Congress from 2013 to 2021, and he helped defend Trump during his first impeachment process.
44% : JILL COLVIN and AMANDA SEITZ Associated PressNEW YORK -- President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday he will nominate anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, putting a man whose views public health officials have decried as dangerous in charge of a massive agency that oversees everything from drug, vaccine and food safety to medical research, Medicare and Medicaid.
43% : Trump has pushed for fewer inspections of the meat industry, for example.
42% : He then ran as an independent but abandoned his bid this summer after striking a deal to endorse Trump in exchange for a promise to serve in a health policy role during a second Trump administration.
39% : During the campaign, Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump had asked him to "reorganize" agencies including the CDC, the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration.
34% : Kennedy, he said, would "end the Chronic Disease epidemic" and "Make America Great and Healthy Again!"Trump said Kennedy would target drugs, food additives and chemicals.
34% : "Trump also announced Thursday that he chose Doug Collins, a former congressman from Georgia, to run the Department of Veterans Affairs.
34% : "I'm going to let him go wild on health," Trump said at a rally last month.
27% : Later Thursday, Trump said he was nominating North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to lead the Department of the Interior.
21% : "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 Thursday in a post on his Truth Social site announcing the appointment.

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