Vice President Kamala Harris slammed former President Trump for potentially giving former Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a public health role in his administration.
“He [Trump] has indicated that the person who would be in charge of health care for the American people is someone who has routinely promoted junk science and crazy conspiracy theories, who once expressed support for a national abortion ban,” Harris said on Friday.
“And who is the exact last person in America who should be setting health care policy for America’s families and children,” she told reporters.
On Monday, Kennedy claimed that Trump had promised him “control” of public health agencies if he wins the election.
“The key that I think I’m – you know, that President Trump has promised me is – is control of the public health agencies, which are HHS and its sub-agencies, CDC, FDA, NIH and a few others, and then also the USDA, which is – which, you know, is key to making America healthy,” Kennedy declared in a video. “Because we’ve got to get off of seed oils, and we’ve got to get off of pesticide intensive agriculture.
Trump has previously said that he would let Kennedy “go wild” on public health issues if elected.
Putting an anti-abortion conspiracy theorist in charge of our public health agencies says everything you need to know about how Donald Trump would govern.
He is more unhinged than ever, and if he wins, he’ll have no one to hold him back. https://t.co/4WNvqsVL8g
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) October 31, 2024
“He’s going to work on health and women’s health, and all of the different reasons because we’re not really a wealthy—or a healthy country,” Trump added on Thursday night.
Harris has pointed to Trump’s inclusion of Kennedy, who endorsed the former president after dropping out of the race, is proof of his unfitness for leadership.
“Putting an anti-abortion conspiracy theorist in charge of our public health agencies says everything you need to know about how Donald Trump would govern,” Harris remarked online.
“He is more unhinged than ever, and if he wins, he’ll have no one to hold him back,” she wrote.
