While many of President Trump's Cabinet picks sparked strong public reactions, the singular appeal — and alarm — generated by Kennedy deluged the Senate with outside pressure.
Trump signed an executive order establishing the President’s Make America Healthy Again Commission. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will chair it.
Kennedy managed to allay the concerns of several key GOP senators over his anti-vaccine activism. Mitch McConnell was the lone Republican to vote against him.
While much of President Trump’s Cabinet has chosen Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to swear them in, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn by a different member of the conservative bloc of the court.
Longtime anti-vaccine critic Robert F. Kennedy was confirmed Tuesday as the new Secretary of Health and Human Services. Here's what to know now.
The vaccine critic is poised to be confirmed and pursue his agenda of fighting chronic disease even while pushing through the administration’s cost cuts.
The son of Robert F. Kennedy was one of Trump's more controversial picks, and his confirmation was met with strong objections from Democrats.
Robert Kennedy Jr.'s anti-vaccine stance sparks debate as he becomes new Secretary of Health. Regina Benjamin shares her thoughts on the impact on healthcare.
In a near party-line vote, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as the Trump administration's Health and Human Services secretary on Thursday morning. He was sworn in later in the afternoon.
President Trump welcomes his second global leader this week with a visit from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday. Their meeting and joint press conference took place just hours after Trump called for reciprocal tariffs that he maintains will crack down on unfair and discriminatory tariffs from both adversaries and allies.
The longtime vaccine skeptic, 71, will be tasked with overseeing the nation's health agencies in Donald Trump's administration
The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate has given its stamp of approval to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, despite his noted vaccine skepticism and other conspiracy-based beliefs on myriad health subjects.