As a candidate, President-elect Donald Trump promised to let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “go wild on health.” Yesterday, Trump said that he would nominate Kennedy to lead the Health and Human Services Department, which would give a vocal skeptic of vaccines significant influence over public health policy.
Earlier, Republicans and Democrats alike had expressed dismay at Trump’s choice of former Representative Matt Gaetz to lead the Justice Department as attorney general. Lawmakers called on a congressional panel to release the results of its investigation into various allegations of misconduct by Gaetz, who effectively ended that probe by resigning from Congress after Trump’s announcement.
Trump said he would name Todd Blanche, who oversaw his legal defense against a number of indictments, to become the No. 2 official at the Justice Department. About a dozen cabinet or cabinet-level roles have yet to be announced.
