Articles Tagged with ''Robert F. Kennedy Jr.''

The Trump administration will grant state waivers to restrict purchases of soft drinks through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in West Virginia Friday. 

Sen. Roger Marshall, a Kansas Republican and doctor by training, has long advocated the "food is medicine" concept, the idea that diet plays a role in preventing and curing disease. Now he has emerged as one of the leading congressional champions of the “Make America Healthy Again” movement launched by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The Food and Drug Administration, picking up a key priority of the "Make America Healthy Again" movement, will consider potential rulemaking to eliminate the self-affirmed Generally Recognized as Safe pathway for food ingredients and chemicals. 

President Donald Trump's nominee to head FDA hasn't attracted nearly the attention that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has, but members of Congress and individuals in the Make America Healthy Again movement say Martin Makary and RFK Jr. are fully in line. 

As the new Secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has set his sights on studying and potentially reducing the number of chemicals in the U.S. food supply. 

“Nothing is going to be off limits” in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s quest to address chronic disease, the new leader at the Department of Health and Human Services told the agency Tuesday. Meanwhile, Jim Jones has stepped down has head of FDA's human foods program, citing "indiscriminate" staff cuts. 

The Senate has confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and Brooke Rollins as secretary of agriculture.

House Republicans try to agree on a grand plan for enacting President Donald Trump’s tax and spending plans this week, while the Senate GOP is opting for a Plan B, a smaller budget plan that leaves more the costliest issues for later. The Senate is set to consider Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination to be secretary of health and human services, and Brooke Rollins' nomination to be secretary of agriculture.