President-elect Donald Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be secretary of Health and Human Services Thursday, charging the noted vaccine skeptic, sex maniac and animal corpse-dumper with ending the “chronic disease epidemic.”
Brain worm-sufferer Kennedy, 70, has been a staunch supporter of Trump since suspending his independent presidential bid in August, and the president-elect had teased that he would let RFK Jr. “go wild” should the Republican nominee win the Nov. 5 election.
Despite his well-known opposition to vaccination of children, Kennedy insisted the day after Trump, 78, became the 47th president-elect that he was not going to “take away” anyone’s vaccines.
“If vaccines are working for somebody, I’m not going to take them away. People ought to have choice, and that choice ought to be informed by the best information,” he told NBC News Nov. 6. “So I’m going to make sure scientific safety studies and efficacy are out there, and people can make individual assessments about whether that product is going to be good for them.”
Another Kennedy bugaboo, the practice of putting fluoride in local water supplies, is regulated by state and local municipalities, making it unlikely that he will have any say in that matter, either
If confirmed as head of HHS, RFK Jr. will oversee 80,000 employees, a $1.7 trillion budget, and a vast network of agencies and subagencies that cover topics as varied as nutrition, immigration and even biodefense research.
Kennedy has called out what he describes as “insidious corruption at the FDA, the NIH, the HHS, and the USDA” and warned Food and Drug Administration employees in a X post days before the election that if Trump won, “I have two messages for you: 1. Preserve your records, and 2. Pack your bags.”
One Senate Republican source was aghast at Trump’s pick, telling The Post that “RFK has as much chance of getting confirmed by the Senate as he does of taking a vaccine shot.”
The source added that it’s unclear whether the threat of a recess appointment of Kennedy by Trump could lead soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) to keep the upper chamber in a marathon session, saying “that dynamic is still being worked through.”
“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 in his nomination announcement, making rare use of his X account to broadcast a cabinet pick. --->READ MORE HERE
Pharmaceutical stocks continued to fall Friday after President-elect Donald Trump’s controversial nomination of vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
Shares of COVID vaccine manufacturers Moderna and Pfizer fell early Friday morning, down 4% and 4.3% respectively.
Shares of Novavax, another US-based biotech company, slipped 2.6%.
Germany-based BioNTech shares plunged 5.9% and British pharma company GSK shares dropped 2.9%.
The stocks had started to fall in the final hour of trading on Thursday as reports emerged of Trump’s contentious pick.
Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax have struggled to match the profits seen during the pandemic as Americans have pulled back on receiving COVID shots.
If RFK Jr. – son of the attorney general and US senator who was assassinated in 1968 – is confirmed as the head of HHS, he will oversee 80,000 employees, a $1.7 trillion budget and a network of health-related agencies. --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to relevant/related stories and resources:
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