Kennedy has criticized the popular Novo Nordisk NOVOb.CO drug Ozempic, which is often prescribed for weight loss, saying it focused on symptoms of the obesity crisis rather than fixing the food system,

WASHINGTON — In the hours after President-elect Donald Trump announced that vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was his pick to serve as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, mixed reactions began rolling in from the senators needed to support his confirmation.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been angling for a role in the Trump administration since he endorsed the president-elect in August.

Kennedy, an environmental lawyer, is known for his misleading and false claims on vaccines, including repeated assertions that vaccines are linked to autism.

President-elect Donald Trump will nominate the anti-vaccine activist and environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of Health and Human Services.

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President-elect Donald Trump tapped Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

The vaccine skeptic's nomination is uncertain, though some Senate Republicans lined up to praise him and Trump

Trump is expected to make Matt Gaetz his attorney general and Marco Rubio his secretary of state, and place Tulsi Gabbard, Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller in key posts.

Polis said Kennedy’s selection “excited” him and he hopes Kennedy takes “on big pharma and the corporate ag oligopoly to improve our health.”