Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday cheered anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to lead the nation’s top public health agency, highlighting the controversial nomi…
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis holds up a copy of Project 2025 as he speaks during the Democratic National Convention Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024, in Chicago. to lead the nation’s top public health agency, highlighting the controversial nominee’s stances on “big pharma” and “corporate ag.”President-elect Donald Trump, a Republican, nominated Kennedy to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Kennedy initially sought the Democratic nomination for president, then ran as an independent.
“‘In some categories, there are entire departments, like the nutrition department at the FDA that are — that have to go, that are not doing their job, they’re not protecting our kids,” Polis quoted Kennedy as saying, then added himself: “YES! The entire nutrition regime is dominated by big corporate ag rather than human health and they do more harm than good.”
After Polis faced pushback, including from several state lawmakers, he added an addendum defending vaccine access and science as a cornerstone to any public health policy.
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