FDA Employees Threaten To Quit If Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is Appointed

Posted • November 15, 2024: President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his Secretary of Health and Human Services. Many consider this quite an upgrade from Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine. Of course, all of the usual suspects are freaking out, and NBC News has out a report that FDA employees are threatening to quit if Kennedy is made part of the Trump administration. They should be concerned about involuntary separation. Kennedy told NBC News the day after the election that "there are entire departments, like the nutrition department at the FDA that are, that have to go." The NBC News story was written before Trump nominated Kennedy to be HHS Secretary, so things just got real. (…)

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NBC News: FDA employees consider how to handle RFK Jr., including leaving
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