Politico February 22, 2025
Kennedy’s first week at HHS included dismissing the workforce, vaccine advisers and some longtime health priorities.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. arrived at the headquarters of the Health and Human Services Department earlier this week with a request for his new employees: Drop your preconceived notions of what I’m going to do.
The health secretary’s first days are testing that sentiment.
Kennedy has taken control of the nation’s health apparatus amid a barrage of firings and abrupt policy shifts, marking the start of a tenure that allies and adversaries alike equate to a hostile takeover of the agencies he spent the last two decades maligning.
An anti-vaccine activist widely dismissed as a fringe political figure just six months ago, Kennedy in...
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