Trump’s decision regarding RFK Jr. sparks mixed reactions from lawmakers

President-elect Donald Trump’s collection of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist, as the following Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services was met with mixed reactions from lawmakers on each side of the political aisle,

When Trump made his selection on November 14, lawmakers, each Republicans and Democrats, openly expressed their willingness to hearken to him. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) mentioned plenty of issues he agrees with Kennedy on, including “tobacco and organic farming.” Colorado’s Democratic Gov. Jared Polis celebrated X’s election, expressing hope that Kennedy would “focus on personal vaccine choice, not bans” and “fight big pharma and the corporate agricultural oligopoly to improve our health.”

Senator Ron Johnson (Wisconsin) prolonged the praise, stating that Kennedy could probably do more to “improve America’s health than anyone in history.” “If President Trump wants it, I believe he could (be confirmed to the Cabinet). Why not?”

Other GOP lawmakers, Sens. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama and Rand Paul of Kentucky echoed similar sentiments. Tuberville thinks it’s “great” that Kennedy is involved and can be open to moving forward once Kennedy’s nomination is confirmed. Paul called the offspring of one in all America’s most famous Democratic families “an important voice… to reassess the crony capitalism in which large corporations, especially Big Pharma, have undue influence over the regulation and approval of their drugs.”

loyal Trump ally and conservative Georgia congresswoman, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, warned GOP lawmakers about what would occur in the event that they don’t confirm Trump’s cabinet picks. “Well, then they’re going to have to deal with Donald Trump and they’re going to have to deal with Elon Musk and his great new PAC and the American people,” she said.

“This is a mandate.”

Trump’s collection of Kennedy was not a shock to many Americans because he endorsed the Republican president-elect after withdrawing as an independent presidential candidate. In an announcement, Trump said he believed Kennedy would “restore these agencies’ Gold Standard research traditions and beacons of transparency to end the chronic disease epidemic and make America great and healthy again!”

However, not everyone is simply too captivated with the choice, given Kennedy’s extreme comments up to now in regards to the Covid-19 pandemic, during which he claimed that the disease was “targeting Caucasians and Black people.” “The most resistant people are the Ashkenazi Jews and the Chinese,” he once said.

Public health and health workers have issued warnings about Kennedy’s ideas as dangerous, highlighting specific concerns about his claim that vaccines cause autism. Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) loyalists are silent on celebrating Kennedy’s election, predicting a war between pharmaceutical and food firms and their allies on Capitol Hill.

Make America Healthy Again PAC spokesman and former national field director for the Kennedy presidential campaign, Jeff Hutt, said that for the policy to be successfully enacted under recent potential leadership, “established Republicans will need to be as bold as they can be.” “