President Donald Trump’s nominee for the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., recently outlined his plan for “radical transparency” to restore trust in America’s public health institutions. Kennedy has long held a critical position toward Dr. Anthony Fauci and the protocols he supported during the COVID-19 pandemic.
During the hearing, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) explained to Kennedy that his efforts to request documents from the federal government under the Biden administration have been unsuccessful. Johnson claimed that he had received pages of redacted emails from Fauci, obfuscating the truth. Therefore, the senator asked Kennedy how he would enforce transparency and unite the country in solving the most pressing public health issues.
RFK Jr. explained to the Senate, “Yeah, my approach to HHS, as I said before, Senator, is radical transparency. Democrats and Republicans ought to be able to come in and get information that was generated at taxpayer expense that is owned by the American taxpayer. It shouldn’t get redacted documents, public health agencies should be transparent, and if we want Americans to restore trust in the public health agencies, we need transparency.”
Speaking about his desire to transcend party boundaries, he said, “When I launched my campaign. It was about uniting Americans, Democrats, and Republicans. There’s no issue that should unite us more than this chronic health epidemic.” He further emphasized that public health is not a partisan issue. “There’s no such thing as Republican children or democratic children,” Kennedy said.
The nominee continued, “These are our kids. 66% of them are damaged. I know what a healthy kid looks like because I had so many of them in my family. I didn’t know anybody with a food allergy growing up peanut allergy. Why did five of my kids have allergies? Why are we seeing these explosions in diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, neurological diseases, depression, all these things that are related to toxic environments.”
Kennedy stressed the utmost importance of not letting partisan lines blur the pursuit of making America healthy again. “Why can’t we just agree with each other to put differences about so many issues, intractable issues, aside and say we’re going to end this?” he questioned. RFK Jr. then explained why he is uniquely qualified for the task at hand.
“I don’t think anybody is going to be able to do this like I have, because of my peculiar experience, because I’ve litigated against these agencies. When you litigate against them, you get a PhD in corporate capture and how to unravel it. I’ve written six books about these agencies. I know a lot about them, and I know how to fix it, and there’s nobody who will fix it the way that I do, because I’m not scared of vested interest,” he told the upper chamber.
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Kennedy asserted, “I don’t care, I’m not here because I want a position or a job. I have a very good life, happy family. This is something I don’t need. I want to do this because we’re going to fix it. And the other thing is, we are attracting now a caliber of people to HHS like never before in history. And they’re entrepreneurs, they’re they’re disruptors, they’re innovators of immense talent that are walking away, many of them from growing concerns.”
He then noted how he has suddenly faced opposition because of his association with President Trump. “They’re coming there because they want to save our country. And they’re from across the political spectrum, and all these Democrats are opposed to me for partisan issues they used to be my friends agreed with me on all the environmental issues I’ve been working on for my whole career. Now they’re against me because anything that President Trump does, any decision he makes, has to be lampooned, derided. discredited marginalized vilified,” Kennedy concluded.
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