Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said during an MSNBC interview that “entire departments” need to be removed from federal agencies.
RFK Jr. said that President-elect Donald Trump has given him three tasks.
“One, clean up the corruption of the agencies, particularly the conflicts of interest that have turned those agencies into captive agencies for the pharmaceutical industry and the other, the food industry, the other industries that they’re supposed to be regulating,” he explained. “Number two, to return those agencies to the gold standard science, the empirically-based evidence-based medicine that they were famous for when I was a kid.”
The third task is to “make America healthy again and to end the chronic disease epidemic. And President Trump has told me that he wants to see measurable concrete results within two years in terms of a measurable diminishment in chronic disease among America’s kids.”
When asked what “clearing out the corruption” would look like, Kennedy said, “In some categories of workers, there are entire departments, like the Nutrition Department at FDA, that have to go, because they’re not doing their job. They’re not protecting our kids. Why do we have Froot Loops in this country with 18 or 19 ingredients, while in Canada it has just two or three?”
While he noted that he “wouldn’t” be removing entire agencies, he reiterated that he will be eliminating their corruption.
“I’ve been doing this for 40 years. I’ve sued all those agencies. I have a PhD in corporate corruption—that’s what I do,” RFK Jr. explained. “Once they’re not corrupt, and Americans are getting good science and are allowed to make their own choices, they’re going to be a lot healthier.”
