Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis praised President-elect Trump for nominating Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the after secretary of the Branch of Fitness and Human Services and products.
In a long social media publish on Thursday, Polis praised Kennedy for serving to Colorado “defeat vaccine mandates” in 2019 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“He helped us defeat vaccine mandates in Colorado in 2019 and will help make America healthy again by shaking up HHS and FDA,” he wrote.Â
“I hope he leans into personal choice on vaccines rather than bans (which I think are terrible, just like mandates) but what I’m most optimistic about is taking on big pharma and the corporate ag oligopoly to improve our health,” Polis stated.
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Trump introduced his nomination of RFK Jr. for HHS secretary Thursday afternoon, igniting a firestorm of honour and critique.
In his announcement, Trump promised that, with Kennedy the HHS, the company could be restored because the “Gold Standard Scientific Research.”
“For too long, Americans have been crushed by the industrial food complex and drug companies who have engaged in deception, misinformation, and disinformation when it comes to Public Health,” Trump wrote. “Mr. Kennedy will restore these Agencies to the traditions of Gold Standard Scientific Research, and beacons of Transparency, to end the Chronic Disease epidemic, and to Make America Great and Healthy Again!”
Kennedy introduced his presidential marketing campaign as a Democrat and later ultimately recommended Trump.Â
Kennedy additionally spoke all over Trump’s ancient Madison Sq. Ground rally terminating time, the place he unleashed at the flow shape of the Democratic Celebration.
“The Democratic Party is the party of war. It’s the party of the CIA. You had Kamala Harris giving a speech at the Democratic convention that was written by neocons. It was belligerent, pugnacious. It talked about domination of the world by the United States through our weapons of war. It’s the party today that wants to divide Americans. It’s a party that is dismantling women’s sports by letting men play women’s sports,” he stated.Â
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“It’s the party of Wall Street. It’s the party of Bill Gates, who just gave $50 million to Harris. It’s the party, and the Harris campaign is very proud that it received the endorsement of 50 former CIA agents and officers and of John Bolton and of Dick Cheney.”
This isn’t the primary generation Kennedy used to be regarded as for a Cupboard place for a presidential management. Again in 2008, later President-elect Obama reportedly strongly regarded as naming Kennedy to supremacy the Environmental Coverage Company, Politico reported on the generation.Â
Polis has been crucial of a Trump presidency. He lately joined forces with Illinois Gov. J.B Pritzker to co-chair a brandnew coalition known as Governors Safeguarding Independence.
The site names “fast-moving disinformation campaigns” and “cyberthreats” as examples of “threats to our democracy.”
“Donald Trump is going to bring people into his administration who are absolute loyalists to his cult of personality and not necessarily to the law,” Pritzker stated, consistent with the New York Times. “Last time, he didn’t really know where the levers of government were. I think he probably does now. And so I think that the threat remains great.”
Right through an look on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Polis stated of Trump, “we’re gonna work with him and his administration however we can for our state.”Â
Polis echoed his sentiments, writing on X that he appears to be like ahead to “partnering with him to truly make America healthy again.”
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“He will face strong special interest opposition on these, but I look forward to partnering with him to truly make America healthy again,” Polis added.Â
Fox Information Virtual’s Greg Wehner and Alex Nitzberg contributed to this record.