WASHINGTON—President-elect Donald Trump said he would nominate environmental lawyer and vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to serve as health and human services secretary, putting a noted critic of U.S. public policy atop the country’s vast health bureaucracy. Trump transition team co-chair Howard Lutnick previously had said that Kennedy wouldn’t head the department if Trump won the election. Like other Trump allies, Kennedy has spent much of his time at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s private Florida club. Antiabortion groups were hopeful that a Trump health department would tighten access to abortion pills. Kennedy founded the nonprofit Children’s Health Defense, where for nearly two decades he continued to question vaccine scientists and public-health officials.

Source: Wall Street Journal November 15, 2024 06:34 UTC