RFK Jr, HHs & MAHA News | Chaos at HHS

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[It is difficult to be much more consistently pro-Trump than Strassel has been for a decade]

“During the Biden years, Republicans skewered Xavier Becerra—a career litigator and politician—as incompetent and unsuited to serve as health and human services secretary. Oh, for the days of mere incompetence.

Donald Trump’s HHS presents something far more absurd. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has married ineptitude to pet obsessions, producing a goat rodeo for the ages. New week, new mess: purgings, resignations, policy reversals, conflicts of interest, elimination of transparency. The agencies Mr. Kennedy oversees—the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health—already had problems after years of politicization and squandered credibility. Now they have problems on RFK levels of testosterone.

… Strip away how one feels about food dyes or processed food, Covid boosters or failed “experts,” and you are still left with a mess.

… One big problem: RFK alone among Mr. Trump’s cabinet members is pursuing his own agenda, not the president’s vision. … Mr. Kennedy? He’s perusing lists of his trial-lawyer friends, deciding whom to award influential government positions.

You’re forgiven if you don’t remember Mr. Trump’s campaign promise to empower Mr. Kennedy’s litigator set.

Performance? Nothing is getting done, in part because Mr. Kennedy can’t put together or keep a team.

… If Mr. Kennedy can’t find anyone to work with, it’s because he’s one of the only Trump cabinet officials who divide the base. The Make America Healthy Movement has gained some steam, mostly because of the Kennedy perch. But if there is a minority of HHS “customers” that gets jazzed by a raw-milk debate, there are many more (including Republicans) who find Mr. Kennedy a quack or would appreciate if he devoted even a few minutes to improving their Medicare experience.

And literally no one feels more confidence right now in the CDC or FDA—since no one knows who is in charge or how they are going to reverse themselves next. You can count Mr. Kennedy’s genuine GOP supporters in the Senate on one hand—even if their colleagues are too chicken to say anything publicly.

… This is overshadowing Trump successes. Are we talking this week about how the administration cut crime in Washington, or GOP plans for housing? No. We are talking about a Kennedy mess.

… Mr. Kennedy’s headlines are of the latter [negative] type, and they are making it too easy for critics to smear the entire administration.

… Mr. Trump presumably has to see that one of his departments looks decidedly unlike the others. And that this situation isn’t going to improve or settle down. The question is how long he allows this exercise in political self-harm to continue. The president honored a rival’s endorsement by giving him a top job. But no cabinet position is a sinecure, and Mr. Kennedy has had his trial run. There are plenty of other bold transformers that can take that job. Maybe it’s time for some interviews.“
 

Florida is right to end school vaccine mandates. Kids should fistfight measles​


For too long, Americans have had to stand back and watch as vaccines deny children the chance to combat viruses and bacteria the natural way, either with firearms or in hand-to-microbe combat.

Florida officials plan to do away with all vaccine mandates for children, and as a self-proclaimed health expert who has read many things on the internet, I couldn’t be happier.

For far too long, Americans have been forced to follow “proven medical science” and “basic public health policies” and “common sense.” But not anymore, at least not in the free state of Florida.

The state’s surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, stood alongside Gov. Ron DeSantis recently and – inspired by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who also reads things on the internet – said the plan is to do away with all rules that require children to be vaccinated.

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Florida is right to end school vaccine mandates. Kids should fistfight measles. | Opinion

Florida officials plan to do away with all vaccine mandates for school children, and as a self-proclaimed health expert, I couldn't be happier.
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