Trump taps Kennedy as his health secretary | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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.
57% : The two campaigned together extensively during the race's final stretch, and Trump had made clear he intended to give Kennedy a major role overseeing public health as part of a campaign to "Make America Healthy Again.
56% : Gor officiated the small 2021 wedding ceremony of former Rep. Matt Gaetz, whom Trump announced Wednesday as his surprise pick for attorney general.
50% : Trump also announced Thursday that he has chosen Doug Collins, a Baptist minister, former congressman and Gainesville, Ga., lawyer, to run the Department of Veterans Affairs, and that his book publisher, Sergio Gor, will lead his presidential personnel office.
48% : NEW YORK -- 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 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 and the social safety net programs Medicare and Medicaid.
48% : He's pushed income tax cuts, reduced regulations and changes to animal agriculture laws and higher education governance.
45% : The World Health Organization credits childhood vaccines with preventing as many as 5 million deaths a yearTrump, in his announcement, said that, under Kennedy, HHS would "play a big role in helping ensure that everybody will be protected from harmful chemicals, pollutants, pesticides, pharmaceutical products, and food additives that have contributed to the overwhelming Health Crisis in this Country."
43% : Trump has pushed for fewer inspections of the meat industry, for example.
28% : Trump has published three books through the company, including one with a now-iconic image of a bloodied Trump pumping his fist after he was shot at an open-air rally in Butler, Pa., in an assassination attempt in July.
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.
8% : That book, "The Clock and the Calendar," argued that Democrats were impeaching Trump to get revenge for him beating Hillary Clinton in 2016 and to prevent him from being reelected in 2020.
5% : Collins wrote a book about Trump's first impeachment over claims that he improperly withheld military aid from Ukraine in order to push Ukraine into announcing an investigation into Biden, who went on to beat Trump in 2020.

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