Politico November 7, 2024
By Chelsea Cirruzzo and Ben Leonard

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AN HHS ROADMAP — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will likely be a part of a second Trump administration’s HHS, where he could play a major role in shaping policy as the department grapples with cybersecurity and legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act and its Medicare drug negotiation policy.

In his victory speech early Wednesday morning, President-elect Donald Trump praised Kennedy.

“He’s going to help make America healthy again. … He wants to do some things, and we’re going to let him get to it,” Trump said. “Go have a good time, Bobby.”

The sprawling agency’s budget for the next fiscal year has to be decided by Congress, creating uncertainty about how much leeway the department will...

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