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President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Robert F. Kennedy as Secretary of Health and Human Services.The cabinet position oversees U.S. government health agencies including the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health and other agencies responsible for family health, Medicare and Medicaid.Trump has signaled for weeks that Kennedy could hold a high-level health position in his administration.
'At a rally during his campaign, Trump said of Kennedy 'I'm going to let him go wild on health, I'm going to let him go wild on the food, I'm going to let him go wild on medicines.
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