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RFK Jr. says he's "not familiar" with all health program cuts in exclusive interview

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-sweeping-cuts-health-programs-employees-exclusive-interview/

By Kelsie Hoffman, Sara Kuzmarov, Michael Sugerman

Updated on: April 9, 2025 / 11:45 AM EDT / CBS News

In his first network TV interview since becoming Health and Human Services secretary under the Trump administration, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke with CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook about the measles vaccine, major government cuts and health care costs.

LaPook met with Kennedy in Mesa, Arizona, where he visited a native health center as part of a three-state tour to promote the Trump administration's "Make America Healthy Again" agenda, which includes overhauling standards for food processing.

"FDA needs to start regulating food again and saying, you know, not just when food is adulterated, when there's bacteria in it, let's look at the chemicals in it," Kennedy said.


Cuts to health programs and staffing

Since his appointment in February, Kennedy has facilitated sweeping cuts affecting a wide range of programs and employees...........................

When it’s his time to go, I hope it is agonizingly painful. Fuck that evil POS.

There were no active brain cells for it to devour.

But...all his health needs will be there and 100% paid.

better cabinets at IKEA"

fools, all of them

the proper DOGE people behind him making decisions. Kennedy is just the Mandarin from Iron Man 3 as are the rest of the Trump department heads

Obviously they knew they chose a bunch of morons for our most needed positions.

to 10 - being I am highly educated in this particular field and respected by my peers. Donald probably chooses a 2. Maybe a 3

Bunch of burned out druggies.

And he’s been very active in AA for over 40 yrs - still goes to AA meetings almost every day. Like him or hate him - anyone who is able to overcome a heroin addiction for 40 yrs should not be constantly called a drug addict forever. Many might take drugs having your uncle & dad murdered when you are so young.

He’s been one of our top environmental lawyers.
He took hundreds of agencies &
corporations to court for polluting the US & Mexico and he was on the team of lawyers who took on Monsanto/Bayer - and his team WON $290 million for cancer patient.

“Environmental lawyer, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. son of the late U.S. Senator, Robert F. (“Bobby”) Kennedy and nephew of the late President, John F. Kennedy, and his team, have won an historic $290 million landmark case against agricultural giant Monsanto and its glyphosate-based product “Round-up” claiming the product likely caused the cancer of their client, plaintiff Dewayne Johnson a former school groundskeeper.” https://www.irishcentral.com/news/robert-f-kennedy-case-monsanto-roundup-weed-killer

Some of his most high-profile victories include:


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1. DuPont Case (2007): Kennedy was part of the legal team that secured a $396 million jury verdict against DuPont for contamination from its zinc plant in Spelter, West Virginia. This was a significant win for rural communities affected by toxic pollution.

2. DuPont PFOA Settlement (2017): He contributed to a $670 million settlement on behalf of over 3,000 residents in Ohio and West Virginia whose drinking water was contaminated with perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) from DuPont’s Parkersburg facility.

3. Monsanto Roundup Cases: Kennedy joined the Morgan & Morgan law firm in 2016 and was involved in lawsuits against Monsanto, alleging that its glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup caused non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. While he was not the lead attorney in the landmark 2018 case that awarded $289 million (later reduced to $78 million), his firm’s collaboration contributed to subsequent multibillion-dollar settlements, including a $10 billion resolution in 2020 affecting thousands of plaintiffs.

4. General Electric and ExxonMobil Cases: Through Riverkeeper, Kennedy helped win cases against General Electric for toxic runoff into the Hudson River and against ExxonMobil, securing a court order to clean up millions of gallons of spilled oil in Brooklyn, New York.

5. New York City Watershed Agreement (1997): While not a courtroom victory in the traditional sense, Kennedy played a leading role in negotiating this landmark agreement, which protected New York City’s drinking water supply and set a global standard for watershed protection through stakeholder consensus.

Being uneducated is his forte.

TSF chose his cabinet secretaries and agency heads based on their suck-up talents, not competency. They’re there to fabricate stories and deflect criticism, while the undersecretaries stay out of the limelight and decimate the organizations.