https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/11/14/congress/republican-lawmakers-are-taking-rfk-jr-seriously-00189599

RFK Jr. has big asks of Washington. Republican lawmakers say they’re open.
Kennedy and his “Make America Healthy Again” movement want to go after traditional GOP interests in food and pharma.

MAGA won big. Now MAHA is ready to take on Washington.

President-elect Donald Trump promised Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a chance to implement his Make America Healthy Again vision and Kennedy is in the mix to run the Department of Health and Human Services.

That could turn the government’s role in public health upside down. Kennedy blames Americans’ poor health in part on a corrupt alliance among the food and drug industries and the regulators supposed to watch over them. He wants to replace the bureaucrats and overhaul the systems for overseeing pesticides, food additives and vaccines.

That could mean rules and product bans that threaten the profits of the food and pharma