Demetre Daskalakis, former President Joe Biden’s Monkeypox response deputy coordinator, is out at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Daskalakis occupied various sexual-disease-related leadership roles during his five year tenure at the CDC.
Daskalakis says he was “escorted off lovingly” from the CDC’s campus by “folks who I work with very closely and I love” on Aug. 28 after resigning the previous evening.
Joy, love, and hideous sexually transmitted diseases are the basic components of Daskalakis’ vocabulary.
Biden monkeypox advisor Demetre Daskalakis says the Biden administration aims to “support peoples’ joy as opposed to calling them ‘risky’”:
“One person’s idea of risk is another person’s idea of a great festival or Friday night.” pic.twitter.com/nKsRQNmOwY
“One person’s idea of risk is another person’s idea of a great festival, or Friday night, for that matter,” he told MSNBC in 2023 in response to a recent Monkeypox outbreak. Daskalakis called to “get the word out in a way that supports people’s joy.”
Another interviewer praised Daskalakis’ frank approach to disease management.
“I really like the new CDC language on your website about monkeypox risk … You talk about sex toys. You talk about buttholes. You say the word ‘cum!’”
“Fetish gear! And leather and latex,” Daskalakis added. “It’s a priority for CDC and for the rest of this response that we provide as clear and culturally appropriate guidance as possible.”
Daskalakis explained his leadership philosophy in a 2020 interview.
“In the last five or six years, we shifted the entire dialogue around sexual health to making sure we support a pleasurable life, rather than create an impossible standard of abstinence.”
The CDC will have to survive without such insights.
“We weren’t able to sort of share our expertise up the chain,” Daskalakis complains to The New York Times (NYT) on an Aug. 29 episode of The Daily podcast.
The former Monkeypox czar credited new leadership at the CDC for his decision to resign.
“I believe that CDC science is going to be compromised by [the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)],” Daskalakis says, detailing changes since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary. “I’m very worried that CDC data will either be presented in a light that’s inaccurate or will be manipulated in a way that doesn’t reflect reality, and that’s going to be what will lead to decision making.”
Meet Demetre Daskalakis.
Demetre was just appointed by Joe Biden to be the official White House National Monkeypox Response Deputy Coordinator. Demetre proudly wears the official symbol of the Church of Satan: The Pentagram.
Joe Biden appointed a Satanist to the White House. pic.twitter.com/TiMPY29AtC
Daskalakis now warns the public to be skeptical of the federal government.
“You’re saying that the American people should now be wary of the advice they get from the agency that is tasked with keeping them safe?” Rachel Abrams, host of The Daily, clarifies.
“Yes,” Daskalakis says. He encourages the public to “really question what’s happening on the federal level because of undue influence and directives that are not transparent.”
Most of us managed to reach that conclusion prior to 2025. But it’s nice that Daskalakis is joining the club.
“If CDC employees want to defend the status quo and aren’t aligned with a reform, they should resign,” Calley Means, a special government employee for HHS, wrote on X.
Means offered a few examples of the CDC’s incredible failures.
“Americans have lost faith in the CDC because the organization spent $900 million on an ad campaign saying the COVID vaccine prevented transmission. Americans have lost faith in the CDC because recent disclosures show the organization knowingly withheld information about myocarditis risk from the COVID vaccines.”
“President Trump and Secretary Kennedy aren’t responsible for our public health crisis. They are responsible for identifying it and channeling the overwhelming (and correct) cry from Americans for reform,” Means concludes.
Daskalakis resigning is a win-win. Americans suffer one less abuse of their tax dollars. Daskalakis has plenty of free time to enjoy his Friday nights.
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Critics are sounding the alarm over a provision in a House appropriations bill they say could shield pesticide manufacturers from legal liability — drawing comparisons to the 1986 law that granted similar protections to vaccine makers.
The rule, tucked into Section 453 of the House’s Fiscal Year 2026 Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, has sparked backlash from supporters of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement. They argue it could mirror the fallout of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which created a no-fault system protecting vaccine producers from injury lawsuits.
“If you don’t like what happened with vaccine indemnification, you’re really not gonna like what happens with pesticide and herbicide indemnification,” Dr. Robert Malone, a prominent and longtime critic of COVID-19 vaccine mandates, said in a July 24 video.
Dr. Robert Malone joined the call with a blunt warning.
If the 1986 vaccine immunity deal made you angry, this pesticide bill should enrage you.
“What we’re encountering here is something that is right at the heart of the MAHA movement, even more than the vaccine agenda.”… pic.twitter.com/w287oJBNMb
“If you aren’t mad now, you damn well should be,” Malone, who currently sits on the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP), added.
Kennedy himself acknowledged the follies of the 1986 Vaccine Act in an X post.
“The 1986 Vaccine Act gave vaccine makers immunity against lawsuits by children who suffer vaccine injuries,” he tweeted Wednesday in a scathing criticism of the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), a program created by Congress in conjunction with the Vaccine Act.
The 1986 Vaccine Act gave vaccine makers immunity against lawsuits by children who suffer vaccine injuries. The statute, and numerous subsequent court decisions, recognized that vaccines, like all medicines, are, in the words of the American Academy of Pediatrics case,…
However, despite the popular uproar, Kennedy Jr. has yet to publicly comment on Section 453.
The lack of coverage from MAHA reformers within the government has invoked sharp criticism.
“You get that Section 453 of the new Appropriations Bill — that would shield pesticide manufacturers from liability in U.S. courts — will undo ALL of the good from the MAHA healthy food campaign, right? Yet MAHA insiders haven’t said a word of protest. Makes you wonder,” Toby Rogers, Ph.D. and fellow at Brownstone Institute for Social and Economic Research, tweeted Wednesday.
You get that Section 453 of the new Appropriations Bill — that would shield pesticide manufacturers from liability in U.S. courts — will undo ALL of the good from the MAHA healthy food campaign, right? Yet MAHA insiders haven’t said a word of protest. Makes you wonder. 🤔
Rogers did not lay the entirety of the blame at Kennedy Jr.’s feet, however.
“Secretary Kennedy understands that we need systemic change in order to improve the health of all Americans. We need to clean up our industrial food system to get rid of toxic chemicals and heal the soil, he told the Daily Caller.
“Unfortunately, in this administration, Secretary Kennedy has been siloed into working on just a few parts of the health system. That’s not going to work. The entire system is poisoning us and Section 453 will wipe out all of the good that MAHA has done in connection with food thus far,” Rogers also told the Caller.
He spoke of 453 in biblical terms.
“Section 453 + the 1986 Act are an extinction level event for the U.S. Together they represent the largest self-inflicted mass poisoning in human history. They reveal a level of depravity in our political system straight out of the Book of Revelations,” Rogers also tweeted.
Section 453, critics claim, would grant immunity to pesticide manufacturers from “failure to warn” lawsuits that consumers could file if chemicals within the pesticides and herbicides sicken them.
The text of the stipulation reads as follows:
“None of the funds made available by this or any other Act may be used to issue or adopt any guidance or any policy, take any regulatory action, or approve any labeling or change to such labeling that is inconsistent with or in any respect different from the conclusion of (a) a human health assessment performed pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act … or (b) a carcinogenicity classification for a pesticide.”
While a causal observer may view the bill text as mundane, Rogers argued it was that ambiguity precisely that made the language so dangerous.
“The bill was clearly written by lobbyists for the pesticide and chemical industries. They knew exactly how to word the rider to gut existing safety laws while hiding their true intentions. Once again Congress is working on behalf of toxic industries and against the interests of the American people,” he told the Caller.
Republican Idaho Rep. Mike Simpson, who sits on the House Appropriations Committee as well as its environmental subcommittee, does not appear to believe Section 453 is as damning as the provision’s detractors.
“The provision does not address the substance of any health assessments and does not change current authority that States have to regulate the use and sale of pesticides within their own State,” a spokesperson for Simpson’s office told the Caller.
“The health and safety of Americans is a priority throughout our FY26 process,” the spokesperson added.
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On my way back from Mass recently, I walked past Alex Padilla, the uber left-wing California senator, coming out of St. Joseph’s on Capitol Hill. The incident was just the latest reminder for me that the Catholic Church is increasingly functioning as the new mainline church in American politics where left, right, and center gather to receive Christ. St. Joseph’s is located about a block away from the conservative Heritage Foundation, and a friend of mine has spotted the leader of the centrist Make America Healthy Again movement, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., at the parish as well.
The development of the Catholic Church as a haven for all members of the political divide is a fulfillment of what Alexis de Tocqueville said about American Catholics, who “constitute the most republican and the most democratic class of citizens which exists in the United States.”
Since Tocqueville’s time, Catholics have percolated throughout important Washington institutions. A majority of the justices on the Supreme Court from both Democrat and Republican appointments are Catholics. They include Amy Coney Barrett, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas, and Chief Justice John Roberts. Neil Gorsuch was raised Catholic and attended Catholic school, but as of 2017, he attended an Episcopalian Church. Catholics also help run major think tanks in D.C. Kevin Roberts, the president of The Heritage Foundation, is probably the most prominent example.
When I arrived in D.C., I had no idea about how preeminent Catholic para institutions had become in the nation’s capital. When you stroll around the Capitol building, it’s not uncommon to see priests in white robes walking about. That’s because the Dominican House of Studies is just a few Metro stops away. It is located across from the National Basilica and the Catholic University of America.
However, the election of Pope Leo XIV this year is probably the single greatest indicator that Catholics are taking over the bipartisan, cultural function once inhabited by the mainline. I was also struck by a recent picture of the pope meeting with Ben Shapiro, perhaps the most famous Orthodox Jew in the world.
The conservative political commentator said he gave the pontiff, a fellow Chicago White Sox fan, a signed baseball from the team’s 2005 World Series, and thanked him for standing for biblical values. This is a pope that gives an address to people in the White Sox stadium and dons a Villanova baseball cap. Villanova remains one of the few major American universities presided over by a Catholic priest (the vast majority of Jesuit universities are now run by lay presidents).
Time will tell if the new pope inspires American Catholics in a way never seen before. Pope Benedict XVI’s writings are still a guidepost for the newest generations of priests. Ultimately, Leo’s pontificate is a capstone to the long maturation of the Catholic faith in America. The most important Catholic is now an American, so naturally being American is becoming Catholic.
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MAHA advocates are warning about a bill Georgia lawmakers passed in March that they allege would allow manufacturers of pesticides to escape liability for poisoning customers.
Senate Bill 144 would make it so “that a manufacturer cannot be held liable for failing to warn consumers of health risks above those required by the United States Environmental Protection Agency with respect to pesticides.”
Environmentalists and regenerative farming advocates warn that the bill would be detrimental to public health.
“Stripping our right to be able to sue if we have a different opinion than what the EPA has is really going to be catastrophic for public health, because then we have no recourse whatsoever,” Kelly Ryerson, the founder of American Regenerative and Glyphosate Facts, told the Daily Caller. Ryerson, a Stanford University MBA, has a certificate in public health policy from Stanford Business School.
The bill’s primary sponsor, Republican Georgia State Sen. Sam Watson, pushed back on the idea that the bill would prevent Americans from being able to sue manufacturers.
“It’s dealing with failure to warn, it’s not providing immunity,” Sen. Watson told the Caller. “It’s not preventing anyone to go after [manufacturers] because they thought that a product caused cancer. You can still do that, you just can’t do it for failure to warn of it causing cancer.”
Manufacturers that would be covered under Georgia’s bill include Bayer, who owns Monsanto, the maker of RoundUp. A Georgia jury is fresh off awarding a plaintiff over $2 billion in a judgement against Bayer after he blamed RoundUp for his non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in a lawsuit.
Why did the Georgia State Legislature rush to pass SB144 aka The Pesticide Bill?
There are $2.1 BILLION reasons why!
Bayer was ordered to pay a plaintiff when they proved his cancer was caused by their pesticide (Round-Up).
RoundUp’s active ingredient is glyphosate, the most commonly used pesticide in the United States. The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) said glyphosate likely causes cancer in 2015, labelling it as “probably carcinogenic to humans.”
“It says it’s likely and we saw that same report. It doesn’t say it does. It says that it suggests or it may be or probably or could cause,” Sen. Watson told the Caller.
The EPA reached a different conclusion. After a February 2020 review, the agency found “that there are no risks of concern to human health when glyphosate is used in accordance with its current label,” according to its website.
The IARC was accused of manipulating their data in 2017. A draft document of IARC’s 2015 study was unearthed and, according to Reuters, showed the agency dismissed and edited out conclusions contrary to their final report.
Watson claimed that the study which the IARC based its carcinogenic conclusion on also found a number of other common American lifestyle choices increased the risk of cancer.
“If you’ll keep reading in that study it also says that red meat is carcinogenic and night shift work is carcinogenic and a lot of other things that people do are carcinogenic. So, I mean, you need to read the whole study because one studies shift and dictate,” Watson told the Caller.
While the EPA did not concur with the IARC’s conclusion that glyphosate is a carcinogen, Ryerson alleged that the research they based that conclusion on was manipulated by Bayer/Monsanto.
Wisner Baum, a law firm which Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once worked for, published a trove of documents that appeared to implicate Monsanto in ghostwriting a number of reports on glyphosate’s toxicity.
Science journal highlights Baum Hedlund’s work un-sealing and exposing the Monsanto Papers. “Scientific misconduct by private firms threatens the integrity of public science, and it threatens to undermine the public’s trust in science.” #ScienceEthicshttps://t.co/ww31mf94ZWpic.twitter.com/5ibdhgMreV
One email published by the firm allegedly shows that Monsanto commissioned scientist David Saltmiras and former Monsanto consultant Larry Keir to recruit respected names to write a review of glyphosate’s toxicity. “[E]ven though we feel confident that glyphosate is not genotoxic, this became a very difficult story to tell given all the complicated ‘noise’ out there,” the correspondence reads.
Keir’s name appears on the review that was eventually published, according to the documents obtained by Wisner Baum.
Other manufacturers that could benefit from the limited liability include Chinese chemical manufacturers. When ChemChina, a Chinese state-controlled chemical manufacturer, bought Swiss AgTech company Syngenta for $43 billion in 2017, it was forced by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to divest its rights to the company’s paraquat chemical business in the U.S. to an American firm.
However, China is still the primary producer of paraquat used in the U.S. while America is the world’s biggest importer, according to global shipping tracker Volza. The U.S. imports from 4,000 to 5,000 tons of the product annually, making up over 10 percent of China’s export supply, according to agropages.com
Like glyphosate, the EPA found “no dietary risks of concern associated with paraquat when it is used according to the label.” But others have called it “the deadliest chemical in US agriculture.”
National Institutes of Health (NIH) studies have linked the chemical to Parkinson’s disease, finding that people who used paraquat were 2.5 times more likely to develop Parkinson’s. Over 50 countries have banned its use, including China.
Sen. Watson, a vegetable farmer who uses RoundUp himself, argued it’s China’s very stranglehold over the paraquat market that makes SB 144 so necessary.
“If the Chinese become the only manufacturer of a product, you can’t go after them. It’s very difficult to go after a Chinese manufacturer for any kind of negligence claim,” he told the Caller.
“So I feel like they’re already protected, which makes it even more important to keep manufacturers in the United States because those are the ones that we can have recourse if they here in the United States.”
Ryerson disagreed. “I actually don’t care who manufactures it,” she said. “I just don’t want it anywhere in our system.”
Additionally, 99 percent of glyphosate used in the U.S. originated from China in 2024, according to a Farm Business Network survey.
You can’t make this up.
A German pharmaceutical company that helped Hitler during World War 2 (@Bayer) bought Monsanto and is now sending mailers in states saying lawmakers are pro-China if they don’t vote for a bill giving glyphosate legal immunity. https://t.co/6IbbIVD9Xe
The bill now sits on Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s desk for him to sign. “Our office has 40 days following the last day of the legislative session to conduct a thorough review of legislation that received final passage by the Georgia General Assembly. We will make an announcement upon the conclusion of that review process,” a spokesperson for Kemp’s office told the Caller.
Georgia’s legislative session ended April 4, giving the governor until May 14 to make a decision.
The bill represents a test of power for RFK Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) coalition. Self-proclaimed “MAHA moms” have been lobbying hard against its passage, imploring Kemp not to sign it. RFK, who tried and won cases on behalf of Monsanto victims in his past life as an attorney, has yet to publicly comment on the bill.
The Daily Caller reached out to HHS to get Secretary Kennedy’s thoughts on the bill but did not receive a response.
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The MAGA coalition had been holding its breath for nearly two months, anxious to see if Trump’s embattled cabinet picks, Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr., could make it through confirmation.
Then, in the span of a few hours on the first Tuesday of February, both picks’ confirmation chances went from possible to almost certain as two Republican hold-outs announced they would vote in favor.
The MAGA coalition could breathe again.
Republican senators Todd Young and Bill Cassidy announced their support of Gabbard and Kennedy, respectively, at the eleventh hour after weeks of hesitancy. It seemed something drastic had happened to change their minds. As observers sorted through clues as to what caused the sudden shift, one key factor emerged: Vice President JD Vance.
Young hinted that Vance had helped him through “extensive conversations” about confirming Gabbard to the director of national intelligence post. Cassidy thanked the vice president for his “honest counsel” as he mulled whether to support Kennedy for Health and Human Services secretary.
But sources familiar with the situation told the Daily Caller that getting Young and Cassidy’s support was actually months in the making, as Vance worked tirelessly behind the scenes whipping votes for President Donald Trump’s nominees.
Ahead of taking office, Trump and others on his transition team planned for Vance to play a role in helping nominees through the confirmation process because of his strong relationships in the Senate, a source familiar with the situation told the Caller.
In the months leading up to his swearing in as vice president, Vance was busy battling with legacy media hosts and casting votes against Biden’s judicial nominations. But he also spent his time making sure his Senate colleagues were warming up to his boss’s cabinet nominations.
Vance’s work began well before Inauguration Day, including several conversations with Senator Young regarding the confirmation of Tulsi Gabbard, sources familiar with the situation told the Caller. It was in the days before the confirmation vote that the vice president’s work intensified, one source added.
For some holding out on supporting Gabbard until the very end of the process, including Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins, there were concerns about Gabbard’s stances on National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden and Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Act, which she previously opposed.
Vance was able to patiently work through these issues with his former colleagues, Young suggested.
“He was respectful, he listened a lot more than he talked, and he, frankly, he seemed to be effective on his end in getting from me the sort of concessions that were required to get to a yes,” Young told reporters. The senator’s vote was the final ‘yes’ needed for the administration to have confidence in Gabbard’s nomination.
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“So that’s it. I mean, he came through. He delivered for me, and I’m grateful for that,” Young added about the concessions Vance was able to secure for him.
A source familiar with the situation contested that Sen. Young got any “concessions” from Gabbard, pointing to the letter he posted on Twitter and arguing that everything she had written in the letter, Gabbard had already spoken about.
During the confirmation process, the source added that Vance was helpful in persuading Senators who were on the fence about Gabbard. The source was confident that the vice president was key in getting Young the letter from Gabbard, which ultimately helped move his vote to a yes.
Young also provided a window into Trump’s apparent thinking when he tasked Vance with seeing his cabinet nominees through confirmation.
“I think he’s been tasked with this role because of his pre-existing relationship with us,” Young told reporters.
Vance has a pull that everyone on the Hill appears to be noticing, and it’s not limited to cabinet picks.
“Whether you’re there two years or 12 years, there is connective tissue — like, I sat in your chair,” one senior Republican aide previously told Politico of the weight Vance carries with the Republican caucus in the Senate.
Though Cassidy, who was key in helping Kennedy get confirmed, said the concessions he received were from the “administration,” the senator admitted that he had spoken to Vance honestly about the nomination. The two especially discussed RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine views. Cassidy’s office referred the Caller to his tweet and floor speech on the matter in which he said the administration sought to reassure him “regarding their commitment to protecting the public health benefit of vaccination.”
In his floor speech ahead of Kennedy’s vote, Cassidy added that Kennedy, alongside the administration, pledged to maintain a key federal advisory board and to allow the Senator input on hiring decisions for the Department of Health and Human Services. This week, the first meeting of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee was postponed after Kennedy took office.
“All I know is that Vance definitely made the difference. Don’t know specifics about the conversations. But after his visits, Bobby had the votes,” an RFK Jr. ally told the Caller, adding that the cabinet secretary also spent a lot of time in talks with Cassidy to help secure his vote.
I’ve had very intense conversations with Bobby and the White House over the weekend and even this morning. I want to thank VP JD specifically for his honest counsel. With the serious commitments I’ve received from the administration and the opportunity to make progress on the…
— U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (@SenBillCassidy) February 4, 2025
Kash Patel, confirmed as FBI Director on Thursday by a 51-49 vote, with Republicans Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski voting against, at first was the target of the bulk of Democrat complaints. As the minority party shifted their ire to Gabbard and Kennedy, Patel’s confirmation process started to fly under the radar. As such, Vance’s hand in getting Patel in as FBI director has gone relatively unnoticed.
After Patel’s nomination, one former government official told CBS News that he was ‘by far the most dangerous pick.” Slate decried Patel’s “enemies list.” NBC News wrote that he previously helped host a show for “a conspiracy-filled, far-right media organization,” referring to the Epoch Times.
But the complaints quickly subsided as Patel took to Capitol Hill to meet with Senators.
One source previously told the Caller that Patel’s path to an easy confirmation can in part be attributed to his commitment to advancing the MAGA agenda and how that drove him to continue cultivating relationships with senate Republicans, even while Trump was out of office. That work led to Patel garnering early support from Republicans without facing any publicly voiced opposition. Additional lobbying from Vance was not as necessary as other Trump picks, a source familiar with the situation told the Caller.
Still, Vance did play a role in helping Patel get nominated in the first place. The vice president, a source familiar with the situation said, helped lay the groundwork among Senate colleagues ahead of Inauguration Day to get them comfortable with Patel’s eventual nomination.
“Our members trust him, which is really important,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune previously told reporters about Vance.
The Trump administration is kicking off the Department of Health and Human Services’s (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. era with a massive new health commission, according to a Thursday evening White House press release.
The Commission is a sprawling new initiative which will, among other things, address America’s chronic disease epidemic and ending childhood chronic illness.
“American life expectancy significantly lags behind other developed countries, with pre‑COVID-19 United States life expectancy averaging 78.8 years and comparable countries averaging 82.6 years. This equates to 1.25 billion fewer life years for the United States population,” the press release read. The release also noted that six out of 10 Americans have at least one chronic disease and four out of 10 have at least two.
🇺🇸MAKING AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order establishing the President’s Make America Healthy Again Commission. pic.twitter.com/d4ISiU1krN
The announcement emphasized making a shift in the way Americans view their health. “This includes fresh thinking on nutrition, physical activity, healthy lifestyles, over-reliance on medication and treatments, the effects of new technological habits, environmental impacts, and food and drug quality and safety,” the release read.
The sprawling commission will be chaired by Kennedy Jr. as the HHS Secretary and co-chaired by the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. Other members of the commission will include the Education Secretary, the Agriculture Secretary, the FDA Commissioner and at least 10 other cabinet members and senior officials.
The initial mission of the commission, according to the readout, will be to study and combat childhood disease. Within 100 days, the commission will present to Trump a report on best practices for preventing childhood health issues.
The sweeping commission follows a turbulent Senate confirmation process for Kennedy Jr., who Trump awarded the HHS nomination to after Kennedy dropped his upstart independent presidential bid to back Trump. The language of the press release was rife with many of Kennedy’s key campaign catch phrases and platforms.
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired back at Democrats who were “chuckling” at his claim that most Americans prefer to be enrolled in private insurance during his Wednesday Senate confirmation hearing.
Kennedy said that the nation needs to “improve” healthcare” for all Americans, particularly veterans, lower income and elderly individuals, and argued that the billions of dollars sent to Medicaid on a yearly basis has not succeeded in making citizens healthier. He argued that a majority of Americans do not approve of government-run health insurance such as the Affordable Care Act or Medicaid.
“Americans don’t, by and large, do not like the Affordable Care Act. People are on it, they don’t like Medicaid, they like Medicare. And they like private insurance. We need to listen to people, they would prefer to be on private insurance, most Americans if they can afford to be, will be on private insurance. We need to figure out ways to improve care, particularly for [the] elderly, for veterans, for the poor in this country. And the current model [of Medicaid] is not doing that. Ask any of the Democrats who are chuckling just now, do you think all that money, that $900 billion we’re sending to Medicaid every year is making Americans healthy? Do we think it’s working for anybody? Are the premiums low enough?”
WATCH:
A Gallup poll from Dec. 2024 found that Americans are split on their preference for health insurance, with 49% of Americans preferring a system based on private insurance and 46% favoring a government-run system. Nearly half of independents, 49%, said they prefer private insurance, while 47% want a government-run system.
Though former President Barack Obama promised that the Affordable Care Act would reduce the cost of premiums by $2,500 annually, the average American family’s health insurance premiums more than doubled from $244 per month to $558 between 2013 and 2019, according to the Heritage Foundation. Supporters at the time suggested that the legislation would help resolve infant mortality, though the rate only witnessed modest declines.
Several Democrats and left-wing politicians, including independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, have called on passing a single-payer system that would abolish private insurance and make the federal government the sole provider of healthcare services.
Kennedy has been highly critical of additives in highly processed American foods and has been a skeptic of some vaccines, though he has assured the public he is not “anti-vaccine.” Many Democrats, including members of his own family, have accused him of being an anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and a danger to public health.
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Supporters of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda have a message for senators who may be entertaining the idea of tanking Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination: opposition won’t go unnoticed among the American public.
Though Kennedy’s nomination to serve as President-elect Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary is drawing fierce resistance from the medical establishment and corporate media, the former independent presidential candidate has a legion of supporters willing to go to the mat to secure his confirmation. MAHA advocates believe that Kennedy is uniquely positioned to help the president-elect usher in a “golden age in health” during the next four years.
MAHA advocates are also prepared to scrutinize senators who oppose Kennedy for any ties to Big Pharma and other corporate interests, according to interviews conducted by the Daily Caller News Foundation with several prominent Kennedy supporters.
“It would be outrageous for Republican or Democratic senators to vote no against RFK Jr.,” Zen Honeycutt, founding executive director of the medical freedom and health advocacy nonprofit, Moms Across America, told the DCNF in an interview. “It would be a huge step back in the wrong direction and people will be outraged.”
“It will be a clear sign that those senators [who vote no] are putting the special interests of Big Pharma before the health of the American people,” Honeycutt added. “What Kennedy is asking for is to have safer food and vaccines. How can you be against that?”
Kennedy met with more than a dozen GOP senators on Capitol Hill in December during which the life-long Democrat appeared to win the support of several social conservatives, including Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, by committing to uphold pro-life Health and Human Services (HHS) policies that Trump pushed during his first term.
Senate Republicans also appear to be embracing many of the food and health policy issues raised by MAHA advocates as a considerable number of the GOP conference rallies behind Kennedy’s nomination.
On Dec. 19, Republican Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall announced the creation of the Senate MAHA Caucus, which promises to “work with RFK Jr. to be the legislative force that ensures the key pillars of MAHA are executed.”
We need transparency with our vaccines and health care. We need to fix our food safety standards. We need to Make America Healthy Again.
Republican Sens. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, Rick Scott of Florida, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming are founding members of the Senate MAHA caucus.
No GOP senator has yet to oppose Kennedy’s nomination, but Republicans seen as more willing to cross Trump, including Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and former Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky are noncommittal.
‘Trying Desperately To Derail’ Kennedy
Long experiencing contempt from corporate media over their advocacy, MAHA advocates are tuning out outlets’ coverage of Kennedy’s nomination and hoping that senators are as well.
“They have not been reporting accurately on vaccine safety or on the pesticides in our food. They’ve been putting their ad dollars — from Big Pharma to Big Ag — before the health and safety of Americans,” Honeycutt told the DCNF. “We see through that. Mainstream media does not tell us hardly anything that is truthful.”
McConnell issued a veiled threat to Kennedy to distance himself from efforts to probe the safety of vaccines following the release of a misleading New York Times exposé on Dec. 13 alleging that Aaron Siri, one of Kennedy’s lawyers, asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), an independent agency under the HHS, to “revoke its approval of the polio vaccine.”
“Efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed — they’re dangerous. Anyone seeking the Senate’s consent to serve in the incoming administration would do well to steer clear of even the appearance of association with such efforts,” McConnell, a polio survivor, said in a statement on Dec. 14.
But the New York Times’ story was “categorically false,” according to Siri, because his petition only sought to have the FDA conduct another clinical trial of one of the six polio vaccines licensed in the United States to ensure its safety when administered to children, Siri told Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson during an interview in December.
“Even if this petition was granted, there is not a single child or adult in America that would not have had access to a polio vaccine,” Siri told Carlson. “That is what makes the New York Times headlines absolutely false. They knew it was false. They intended for the country to be deceived because they’re trying desperately to derail Mr. Kennedy’s nomination.”
MAHA advocates believe that Kennedy’s prior statements advocating for subjecting vaccines to further scientific study is a position most Americans would support.
Bottom line: I’m not going to take anyone’s vaccines away from them. I just want to be sure every American knows the safety profile, the risk profile, and the efficacy of each vaccine. That’s it. pic.twitter.com/JD8eyenO5H
“Bobby Kennedy has said one thing consistently, which is pharmaceutical products should be subjected to science,” Calley Means, a prominent MAHA advocate and co-author of the best-selling book, Good Energy, told the DCNF. “The president’s directive is to figure out why kids are getting sick, why kids are getting autism. And that includes resetting research to answering that question.”
“I don’t think any American disagrees with the idea that pharmaceutical products should be continually studied,” Means added.
‘There Will Be A Huge Backlash’
Refusing to confirm Kennedy could be seen as senators turning their backs on the millions of Americans who support the MAHA agenda and helped send Trump back to the White House to enact the food and health policies that Kennedy’s campaign helped push into the limelight, according to several Kennedy supporters.
“If RFK Jr. does not get Senate approval, I think there will be a huge backlash,” Valerie Smith, a metabolic health coach and Kennedy supporter, told the DCNF in an interview. “The millions of votes that went to Trump getting re-elected are the same people that are going to be very vocal if RFK Jr. doesn’t get in there [HHS].”
GOP senators voting no on Kennedy’s confirmation could also be viewed as alienating the nontraditional Republican constituencies, such as MAHA advocates, that Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign was able to successfully court and bring into the party’s fold.
“I believe moms are a major part of why Trump won and a major reason for that is because he had the wisdom to bring on Kennedy,” Honeycutt told the DCNF. “The fact that Trump used the words pesticides, autism, chronic illness and cancer on a presidential platform — that moment was historic.”
“Finally, somebody has heard us, and we don’t care which party they come from,” Honeycutt added. “Our kids with autism, with autoimmune issues, with asthma, with allergies — finally, they have a champion and somebody that’s standing up and speaking up for us.”
But MAHA advocates are aware that the reason Kennedy may appeal to so many Americans — his independence from and history of taking corporate interests — is exactly why he may face hurdles along the way to his Senate confirmation, several Kennedy supporters told the DCNF.
“He’s a threat to this massive amount of profit that’s gone unregulated up until now,” Smith told the DCNF. “He’s coming up against some very powerful lobbyists and massive amounts of money. I just hope and pray he can overcome them.”
“He isn’t captured by any industry or corporation, so he’s free to do what’s right by the American people, not what’s in the best interest of corporations,” Courtney Swan, an integrative nutritionist and host of the health and wellness podcast, Realfoodology, told the DCNF.
‘Bipartisan Issue Of Our Time’
MAHA advocates are holding out hope that Democratic lawmakers, already embracing parts of Kennedy’s agenda, will also support the prospective HHS secretary’s confirmation.
“Making America Healthy [Again] is the bipartisan issue of our time, Means told the DCNF. “If you closed your eyes at a Trump-RFK rally, you wouldn’t know which party you were listening to.”
“Transparency, medical freedom, getting conflicts out of science — these are bipartisan issues that President Trump has led on, and it’s encouraging that leading Democrats have expressed support for the MAHA agenda,” Means added. “I’m optimistic they’ll support the unimpeachable bipartisan agenda that Bobby has espoused.”
Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Democratic Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, who have all complimented parts of Kennedy’s policy agenda, have left open the possibility they could vote in favor of Kennedy’s confirmation to lead HHS.
“I think what he is saying about the food industry is exactly correct,” Sanders said told CBS News during an interview on Dec. 5 during which he also expressed concern about Kennedy’s positions on water fluoridation and vaccines. “You have a food industry concerned about their profits, couldn’t care less about the health of the American people. I think they have to be taken on.”
A mutual understanding that the nation’s food supply is contributing to making Americans sicker could bring Republicans and Democrats together, according to several MAHA advocates.
“Americans have never been sicker, and they are sick and tired of being lied to and gaslit by the food industry and medical system,” Swan, who applauded Sanders’ commentary on the food industry, told the DCNF in a statement. “We are in this mess because we have allowed industry to take control of the narrative.”
“This needs to end and RFK Jr. is the only politician openly talking about wanting to change it,” Swan added. “We have a once in a lifetime opportunity for real change and for people to do the right thing.”
Senators across the political spectrum should take note of MAHA’s and Kennedy’s political ascendancy, Honeycutt told the DCNF.
“The most important issue before us today is health,” Honeycutt said. “Moms have been driving that issue for a very long time and we’re overjoyed that this new administration has heard us and is making health a primary issue.”
“We don’t care what party someone is from,” Honeycutt added. “If they are putting health first, they will have our support. And we want senators to remember that come election time.”
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The day before the election, Democratic Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar joined countless other liberals in mocking Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the latter’s suggestion that America reduce its high levels of fluoride.
“I was a little shocked that one of their closing arguments for Donald Trump was take the fluoride out of water,” Klobuchar told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Nov. 4. “I guess they’re ending with more cavities.”
Skepticism of fluoridated water had been lumped in by the liberal establishment with a host of other heterodox views, often dubbed “conspiracy theories,” held by Kennedy and his allies.
Kennedy has harshly criticized fluoride, calling it a neurotoxin and an industrial byproduct. He’s claimed the mineral can cause arthritis, bone fractures, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and thyroid disease.
He has pledged that the Trump White House will recommend to communities that they remove it from their drinking supplies immediately after Trump takes office. Trump appeared to co-sign the proposal, saying it “sounds alright to me.”
CNN’s Abby Phillip invited Harvard-trained epidemiologist Dr. Syra Madad onto her show the same day to deride Kennedy’s fluoride criticisms: “I do think there are some rocks to be thrown, frankly, at RFK Jr.”
Madad called Kennedy “dangerous” and said his views on fluoride were “against science.”
“It is safe. It’s not toxic,” Madad told the panel.
“When you look at adding in additional amounts of fluoride, even then, the studies have not proven any significant health adverse effects,” she continued.
But numerous other health officials and toxicologists believe Madad is wrong.
“I think that there is sufficient data now, largely from the epidemiological literature in multiple populations, done by different investigators, that early life exposure to fluoride is associated with an increased risk of IQ loss,” Dr. Linda Birnbaum, a board-certified toxicologist and former director of the National Toxicology Program (NTP), told the Daily Caller.
Birnbaum headed the NTP, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), from 2009 to 2019. She is now an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Public Health, in addition to still contributing research to HHS.
During her tenure, the NTP conducted a systematic review of the published scientific literature on the association between fluoride exposure and neurodevelopment. It found that exposure to higher levels of fluoride — levels it categorized as 1.5 milligrams per liter of water or higher — are associated with lower IQ in children.
The National Toxicology Program (NTP) has declared, “… the data support a consistent inverse association between fluoride exposure and children’s IQ.”
In the meta-analysis by NTP, 52 of 55 studies revealed a decrease in children’s IQ with an increase in fluoride. Internal…
The review said there was insufficient evidence to reach a conclusion about the effects of exposure at 0.7 milligrams per liter, which is the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) current recommended level for U.S. community water supplies.
However, Dr. Birnbaum told the Caller, the NTP is running a comprehensive meta-analysis of the data that will likely show the linked drop in IQ rate is occurring at rates well below the 1.5 milligrams per liter number.
In fact, while Dr. Birnbaum maintained she hasn’t yet seen the newest version of the meta-analysis, older versions she did see show “that it’s quite clear that there may be really no safe level of fluoride just like there’s no safe level for lead,” she said.
Nearly all of the studies the NTP reviewed concluded the mineral was neurotoxic, Stuart Cooper, executive director of the Fluoride Action Network, told the Daily Caller.
The 1.5 number, which the NTP concluded with “moderate confidence” leads to lowered IQ in children, is in line with the World Health Organization, whose current guidelines suggest maintaining levels below that concentration will prevent dental fluorosis, a yellowing or visible calcification of the teeth caused by excessive fluoride exposure.
Cooper argued that the NTP’s report was partially political.
“If you were actually doing a real systematic dose response analysis of a Health Hazard Assessment, do you think you would just magically land on 1.5, which happens to be the World Health Organization’s number?” he asked. “It would be like point 82763, you know, I mean, it wouldn’t be 1.0, what happened? [The report] just coincided miraculously with the World Health Organization? That’s where politics was kind of embedded into this document.”
Cooper, who has spent over 14 years ringing alarm bells about fluoride, says his organization has repeatedly requested supporting studies from the CDC and the American Dental Association (ADA) that prove fluoride is safe but “after 80 years they had nothing.”
“They couldn’t confirm. They have no studies showing that low levels is safe for the developing brain. So here they are exposing 200 million Americans, 2 million pregnant women, 300,000 exclusively bottle-fed infants right at this very second to fluoridation in the drinking water. We have 64 studies showing that that’s harmful, that poses an extreme risk. They have zero studies confirming safety. And yet they want you to ask me what more evidence do I need to find.”
The CDC lauds fluoride as a landmark innovation in preventing tooth decay and caries, otherwise known as cavities. The agency calls community water fluoridation one of the “top ten public health achievements of the twentieth century.”
Thanks to water fluoridation in the U.S., the CDC claims “dental caries declined precipitously during the second half of the 20th century.”
But that precipitous drop has occurred in both fluoridated countries and non-fluoridated alike. Countries with no community water fluoridation like Iceland, Italy and Japan, have all seen even steeper drops in cavities, according to data from the WHO.
“Although the prevalence of caries varies between countries, levels everywhere have fallen greatly in the past three decades, and national rates of caries are now universally low. This trend has occurred regardless of the concentration of fluoride in water or the use of fluoridated salt, and it probably reflects use of fluoridated toothpastes and other factors, including perhaps aspects of nutrition,” KK Cheng, a professor of public health and the Director of the University of Birmingham’s Institute of Applied Health Research, wrote in the British Medical Journal.
— Fluoride Action Network (@FluorideAction) March 18, 2016
Some western communities did remove fluoride from their water and actually saw their cavity rates decrease. Buffalo, New York, a city which removed fluoride in 2012, saw their rates of cavities for people between the ages of 12-65 drop, according to data from the National Institutes of Health.
Nine years after removing the mineral from their water supply, however, Buffalo began fluoridating again in September after families sued the city in a class action lawsuit, alleging their children had to receive more dental care as a result of the fluoride halt.
Despite the many studies and experts expressing concern over the mineral, CNN and Dr. Madad continued to push both its safety and efficacy in reducing cavities.
“Fluoride is a naturally occurring mineral, it’s not a man-made mineral,” Madad told CNN.
Fluoride is a naturally occurring mineral. It is an ionized form of the element fluorine. Yet Kennedy Jr. called it “industrial waste” in a Nov. 2 tweet.
On January 20, the Trump White House will advise all U.S. water systems to remove fluoride from public water. Fluoride is an industrial waste associated with arthritis, bone fractures, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders, and thyroid disease. President…
Fluoride does occur in nature, and in fact many of the studies evaluated in the NTP report were from international communities in China and India who do not fluoridate their public water supply, but simply have high natural levels of the mineral in their groundwater.
But the specific type of fluoride that’s added to American public water supplies is often a chemical byproduct from the fertilizer industry, Cooper explained.
Phosphate fertilizer giants, like The Mosaic Company, produce the precursor to fluoride as a byproduct of their fertilizer production process and then sell it off to dental supply companies and municipalities for their water supply, Cooper told the Caller.
Cooper says the byproduct is known within the industry as “scrubber liquor,” because it’s literally scrubbed from the side of smokestacks.
The chemical companies make a nice profit from this side business, Cooper told the Caller, however he added that if it were banned in public water supplies, it likely wouldn’t hurt their bottom line.
“It wouldn’t be a big deal for them if it went away economically, because they could just replace it with other markets, including in Africa and China, where they’re seeing an increase in fluoride toothpaste. They actually still use the same product, but it’s refined to pharmaceutical grade,” Cooper said.
While many public health agencies still sing the praises of fluoride’s anti-cavity benefits, some dentists say it’s not as effective in treating cavities as the CDC and others profess.
Dr. Staci Whitman, a Portland-based dentist, said she used to be militantly pro-fluoride until she started looking into it.
“I never questioned what my professors in dental school told me. I never questioned the data that was presented to me. I absolutely thought anyone that spoke out against it was lulu tin foil hat brigade, just a total kook,” she told the Caller.
Staci actively participated in pro-fluoride campaigns, handing out pamphlets detailing the benefits of the mineral and attending lectures and debates on the topic. It was at one of these debates where Dr. Whitman had an epiphany.
“I realized that these people representing antifluoride, if you will, they were very articulate, very professional, had a ton of science and data that I had never seen, never had even heard, never even knew there was potentially an issue with water fluoridation. It wasn’t even on my radar.”
Then, Dr. Whitman began to read. “I don’t know if I can support this anymore,” she realized. “And that was when I thought water fluoridation maybe worked, and now we know it really doesn’t. We know that fluoridated countries have the same decay rate as non-fluoridated countries.”
The vast majority of European countries do not fluoridate their water.
“Most of those countries have banned the practice because they view it as a medical experiment. It’s the only chemical we add to the water supply that’s not intended to treat the water. It’s intended to treat the consumer,” Cooper said.
Florida once again leading the way w/wise public health recs from @FLSurgeonGen
Almost all of Europe (gray👇) decided decades ago against fluoridating water; benefits unclear w/access to topical fluoride
Dr. Whitman said she went along with fluoridation because everybody else did.
“I literally was just making it up. I was just seeing what my professor said, which I would say, ‘Oh, look at you. No cavities. You must have grown up in a fluoridated community.’ I was just saying it because everyone else did. It was observational. That’s not science.”
Dr. Whitman pointed to the latest findings on community water fluoridation from the Cochrane Report, a systematic review of research in health care and health policy which she calls “the gold standard.”
Cochrane reviewed 21 studies of community water fluoridation and found the practice “may slightly increase the number of children who have no tooth decay in either their baby teeth or permanent teeth.”
However, “these results also included the possibility of little or no difference in tooth decay,” the report added.
Cavities are the largest chronic disease globally, affecting both fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities alike, Dr. Whitman explained. Fluoride, she told the Caller, is not the problem. Rather, it’s the food we eat.
“No one gets cavities because of lack of fluoride,” she said.
“Ancestrally, we didn’t have fluoride in our lives. Look at the skulls from 10 or 12,000 years ago. The teeth are pristine. So what changed it was our diet. It was an agricultural revolution and the industrialized revolution we started adding sugar and flour into everything. So fluoride is just a cop out for our issue with our food system and big food and the big sugar industry.”
Dr. Whitman explained she’s not necessarily anti-topical fluoride, and pointed to the widespread availability of fluoridated toothpaste as further evidence for the unnecessary nature of water fluoridation. But she also recommended hydroxyapatite, a calcium and phosphorus based teeth cleaner that is used in Italy, Japan and other western European countries, as a fluoride alternative.
Our teeth, Dr. Whitman explained, are comprised of hydroxyapatite, not fluoride. The use of the alternative can prevent the development of dental fluorosis, which affects 40 percent of teenagers in America today, according to the CDC.
It can also prevent the much more serious skeletal fluorosis, which can severely distort a person’s bones. While communities across the United States add fluoride to their water supplies, governments in India and China and other communities with high natural levels of fluoride have spent millions of dollars on research and removal efforts, Cooper told the Caller.
“The government and many nonprofits have been working for decades to solve that problem. It’s just, it’s just really difficult, and it’s difficult to filter out, and that’s why we get to this point here in the United States where … we voluntarily add it, we self-inflict this harm,” he said.
Both Cooper and Dr. Whitman pointed to the embedded nature of the mineral in standard dental practices as a barrier to change the public perception on its potential harms.
“I don’t think there’s a nefarious action. I think most dentists just don’t know the issue very well,” Cooper said. “When I talk to them at city halls and I talk to them at legislative hearings, the average dentist has been working with topical fluoride their whole life in their dental office. They learned one day in dental school, they heard about the benefits of water fluoridation as settled science, and they believe it, and they care about children.”
Still, he said, the American Dental Association, who publicly endorse water fluoridation, are too deep in defending the practice to change course.
“At this point, it’s a lie that’s too big to fail,” he said. “If they now admit that they were not only wrong, but that many millions of children were harmed by this, there would be a grand loss of trust in the American Dental Association. And unfortunately along the way, as the dental lobby is really wealthy and powerful, they co-opted government in support of this.”
Both experts argued the burden of proof should be on the pro-fluoride side, especially considering the high stakes surrounding neurodevelopment.
“I am trained as a dentist to fix teeth, but I can’t fix a brain,” Dr. Staci said. “We only have one shot at developing a child’s brain.”
Cooper concurred.
“The cavity can easily be filled, but damage to the brain is permanent and has lifelong consequences. There are no second chances with brain development, and we have a large volume of government-funded research that now shows that fluoride at the levels experienced in Florida communities is neurotoxic. That’s the scientific consensus. There is no contradictory science. And we have government-funded research showing that for decades, and they knew it, we have been overexposing infants to water fluoridation,” he concluded.
The American Dental Association, in fact, receives millions of dollars from corporations that produce fluoride products, an ADA memo requested by Republican Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley in 2010 revealed.
“These dental product companies were giving different grants … but they were also giving millions of dollars to pay for the ADA’s endorsement of their products,” Cooper said. “You see that ADA seal of approval? Well, the one rule the ADA has to get that seal of approval is your product must contain fluoride. So even if you make a really great Xylitol toothpaste, they’re not going to put their stamp of approval unless you also add fluoride.”
Cooper lauded the Trump administration and Kennedy Jr. for taking action and drawing publicity to the issue.
“What the Trump administration is doing, what RFK is doing is on water fluoridation, is common sense that elected officials ought to be doing at every level,” he said.
Now, some public health officials are following Trump and Kennedy’s lead.
Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Florida’s Surgeon General, officially recommended against community water fluoridation last month, citing “the neuropsychiatric risk associated with fluoride exposure.”
Adding fluoride to water increases the risk of neuropsychiatric disease in children and reduces their IQ. We can strengthen teeth without consuming this neurotoxin.
The data are consistent, adding fluoride to our communities’ water must stop.
His recommendation follows a landmark September decision from United States District Judge Edward Chen in Northern California forcing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to more strictly regulate the levels of fluoride in water under the Toxic Substances Control Act.
“The scientific literature in the record provides a high level of certainty that a hazard is present; fluoride is associated with reduced IQ,” Chen, an Obama appointee, wrote in his decision.
Still, some communities, like Buffalo, New York, are doubling down. Nine years after removing the mineral from their water supply, Buffalo began fluoridating again in September.
Others still express doubt that the studies showing high levels of fluoride linked to neurotoxicity are in any way relevant to the levels at which American water is fluoridated.
“Fluoride can certainly be toxic,” Dr. Ryan Marino, a board-certified toxicologist and professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, told the Caller.
“Acute fluoride toxicity is one of the worst poisonings I can think of. However, the levels of fluoride used for dental health benefits in American drinking water are significantly below the levels that could even start to cause harmful effects and toxicity, and the levels we use have never been shown to cause harmful effects or toxicity,” Dr. Marino concluded.
But given the recent California ruling and Kennedy Jr.’s anti-fluoride campaign, Cooper is hopeful the tide is turning.
“There’s decades of science that we’ve been doing our best to get out there, but it’s been stifled by mainstream media and the ADA,” Cooper said. “Finally, now they can’t keep the lid on it anymore, and it’s just like they don’t know what to do. They’re in a panic.”
The Daily Caller contacted the CDC, the ADA, the NTP, HHS and Dr. Syra Madad for comment but did not hear back by publication.
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NEWS UPDATE: President-elect Trump has announced that he will nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Donald Trump’s stunning victory has everyone talking, especially about the surprising gains that he made with minority, youth, and women voters.
As a woman, I was told that most of us would be voting for Harris because she was a champion of women’s health. It didn’t happen. In fact, Harris barely won the majority of the female vote, and she won women in smaller numbers than her Democratic predecessors .
Why?
Recently, I noticed that a “crunchy” mom, or a mom who adopts a natural, holistic lifestyle, whom I follow on social media shared one of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) posts on her Instagram story. She has hundreds of thousands of followers.
And it got me thinking – what if different health concerns influenced the female vote other than the reproductive healthcare that Harris’s campaign was banking on?
Harris and the Democratic Party felt confident in their standing with women voters due to her outspoken advocacy of women’s reproductive rights. Her campaign saturated the media with stories of women who had not received proper miscarriage healthcare and who had witnessed botched abortions and other pregnancy tragedies. Women’s health was the defining issue of the Harris campaign.
But if the feed in my enclave of Instagram reflects broader trends, as I think it does, and if the crunchy movement is indicative of health concerns shared by many American women, then it is quite possible that the growing number of naturally-minded and holistic health women, particularly mothers, sympathised with RFK.
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The former Democrat turned Trump supporter speaks right to the heart of the issues that crunchy, and even not so crunchy mothers, worry about.
In recent years, several trends call into question the food, medical, and pharmaceutical industries that RFK has vowed to reform.
First, many polls have shown that vaccine scepticism has increased dramatically since the pandemic. According to a recent Gallup poll, only 40 percent of Americans consider vaccines extremely important to the wellbeing of their children, a dramatic shift from in 2019 when this was true for more than half of Americans.
Even before COVID, RFK was lobbying for mercury to be removed from childhood vaccinations. Kennedy’s vaccine scepticism resonates with Americans who regard vaccines critically, forgo certain vaccines, or avoid them altogether.
Second, RFK’s worry about ultra-processed foods is shared by many mothers. The popularity of organic produce and rejection of processed foods have grown stronger in recent years. “Seed oils,” one of the more highly processed and ubiquitous food ingredients, was a word almost unheard of just a few years ago, and now households are seeking alternatives. The most dramatic example is the recent return of raw milk.
The third factor is distrust of doctors and Big Pharma in the face of a growing mental and chronic health crisis. A studythis August by Northeastern University showed that faith in medical professionals has been declining over the past four years, falling from 71.5 percent in April 2020 to only 40.1 percent in January 2024. Many studies have shown that women feel gaslit and ignored by doctors. Add to this the rising mental health crisis and chronic illness crisis and you have a crisis of confidence in the medical profession.
Fourth, a growing number of women think that holistic, alternative, and nutritional health has been sidestepped in favour of quick-fix drugs. RFK has questioned the motives of the pharmaceutical and medical industry, drawing attention to the fact that the more chronic illness and drug-dependency there is, the more money it makes. He has vowed to root out corruption in the medical profession and Big Pharma.
As a mother myself, I can attest that no one feels these concerns more acutely than we do. Mothers on both sides of the political aisle can join hands on this. We are worried to death.
The Democrats made a huge mistake in defining women’s healthcare as abortion labeled as reproductive healthcare. Most women in the US are mothers, and for most moms their children’s health is paramount. For all the left’s talk about abortion and women’s health, perhaps the female vote was more interested in the health and wellbeing of their children. It’s no wonder RFK’s promise of a healthier America resonated with them.
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Former President Donald Trump has added former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be part of his transition team after they both recently endorsed his bid for the presidency.
“As President Trump’s broad coalition of supporters and endorsers expands across partisan lines, we are proud that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard have been added to the Trump/Vance Transition team. We look forward to having their powerful voices on the team was we work to restore America’s greatness,” Trump senior adviser Brian Hughes said in a statement obtained by the Daily Caller.
Kennedy, who was running as an Independent, suspended his campaign Friday and endorsed Trump. Just days after, Gabbard, who has reportedly been helping Trump with debate preparation, also endorsed Trump, saying Monday that she believes Trump is the best person to keep us out of wars.
“He keeps us in his heart in the decisions that he makes. We saw this through his first term in the presidency, when he not only didn’t start any new wars, he took action to deescalate and prevent wars,” Gabbard said.
The former congresswoman compared Trump’s record on foreign conflict to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, arguing that their administration had brought the country closer to war. She added that she was “confident” Trump would “do the work to walk us back from the brink of war.”
Kennedy first told Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson about being asked to help with Trump’s transition team, saying they were discussing it.
“I’m going to work to get him elected,” Kennedy said to Carlson. “And I’m working with the campaign. We’re working on policy issues together. I’ve been asked to go onto the transition team and to help pick the people who will be running the government.”
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Also serving on Trump’s transition team are his sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, as well as the former administrator of the Small Business Administration Linda McMahon, businessman Howard Lutnick and Ohio Republican Sen. and Republican Vice Presidential nominee J.D. Vance.
“The 2024 GOP Platform to Make America Great Again is a forward-looking agenda that will deliver safety, prosperity and freedom for the American people. My administration will deliver on these bold promises,” Trump said in a statement. “We will restore strength, competence and common sense to the Oval Office. I have absolute confidence the Trump-Vance Administration will be ready to govern effectively on Day One.”
A source close to Trump told the Daily Caller that Kennedy will “definitely be on the campaign trail and doing media” ahead of the election.
Since Democrats threw President Joe Biden out the proverbial window to anoint Vice President Kamala Harris as the new nominee, female voters have flocked to her campaign. However, former President Donald Trump has a plan to bring a large portion of these voters back.
One of Trump’s greatest weaknesses is his inability to reach female voters on a large scale. While conservative women, in large part, enthusiastically support Trump, a swath of independent female voters aren’t sold on his campaign. But that should all change now that presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his campaign in most swing states and fully endorsed Trump for president.
Women make up just over 51% of Americans; among those, about 18% are mothers, according to a report gathered by Vote Mama Foundation. The group found that 7.7% of women in the U.S. are mothers to children under the age of six, and 10.2% are mothers to children older than six but under 18.
There is reason to believe these women will support Trump now that Kennedy has endorsed his campaign and will be part of his administration, according to female commentator Alex Clark.
“Can’t express to you how amped conservative female voters are after last night. They have been waiting for 20+ years to hear a presidential candidate acknowledge the health crisis stemming from our corrupt food system. Women are re-energized and ready to show out for Trump,” Clark posted on X after Kennedy’s announcement.
Can’t express to you how amped conservative female voters are after last night. They have been waiting for 20+ years to hear a presidential candidate acknowledge the health crisis stemming from our corrupt food system.
Women are re-energized and ready to show out for Trump.
A growing concern, one that I have, too, is how we as mothers are supposed to raise healthy children when everything being sold to us, from our water supply to the food at our local grocery stores, is filled with harmful chemicals that disrupt our body’s immune system and prevent us from being healthy. Even seemingly healthy foods like milk, eggs, and meat are hardly fitting for humane consumption.
It all feels too overwhelming to even think about, much less fight against. How is a family in a Biden-Harris economy supposed to afford to buy all organic produce, raw milk, pasture-raised eggs, and grass-fed beef when they can barely pay the mortgage? Not only are we fighting against unrelenting inflation driving prices high, but the products (even if we could afford them) are still filled with chemicals forced onto farmers by the federal government.
These issues and more (the U.S.’s insane childhood vaccine schedule) are the foundation on which Kennedy has built his campaign. Ipsos polling from March 2024 showed that women made up a large portion of Kennedy’s campaign support. Kennedy voters are slightly more likely to be women and identify as independents rather than Democrats or Republicans, according to the polling.
These suburban women are looking for someone to come in and help clean up our environment and make it easier to raise a healthy family. It would be a mistake for Democrats to laugh this off as if their obsession with anti-family policies like abortion are the only things women care about.
You actually can’t make this up.
In response to the claim that 50% of the @US_FDA’s budget comes from pharma (a terrible incentive…), the agency released an official statement saying it is only 47%…
Trump’s move to include Kennedy in this fight will not only change the game for his election but should hopefully mark a shift in the American food industry. Kennedy wants to end the revolving door from federal regulators, like the FDA, CDC, and OSHA, into Big Pharma, Big Ag, and Big Food. This would be music to the ears of desperate American mothers.
It’s clear that Trump is gunning for the women’s vote, and Kennedy could help him finally break into their voting bloc.
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Former Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Secret Service protection has ended following the suspension of his campaign, the agency confirmed in an email to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Kennedy announced the suspension of his campaign in red and major swing states on Friday, endorsing former President Donald Trump. Kennedy’s press secretary, Stefanie Spear, told CBS News on Sunday that the former candidate “no longer has USSS protection.”
Secret Service Chief of Communications Anthony Guglielmi told the Daily Caller News Foundation on Sunday that “Mr. Kennedy is no longer a protectee of the US Secret Service,” without providing additional details.
Kennedy’s campaign struggled to secure Secret Service protection since entering the race in April last year. After months of requests, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced on July 15 that Kennedy would receive protection.
The approval, at the time, came days after 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to assassinate Trump at a Pennsylvania rally on July 13. The attack, which resulted in the death of former volunteer fire chief Corey Comperatore, also left Trump with a bullet-grazed ear and severely injured two others in the crowd.
Following the attack, Trump called for Kennedy to “immediately” receive protection from the Secret Service in a post on Truth Social.
“We are in a heightened and very dynamic threat environment. The United States’ Secret Service, we — including the FBI and our other partners across the federal government — take the threats very seriously and adjust security measures as warranted, maintaining the safety and security of the president, the former president in their campaign events is one our most vital priorities,” Mayorkas said at the time. “In light of the weekend’s events, the president has directed me to work with the Secret Service to provide protection for Robert Kennedy Jr.”
Since suspending his campaign, Kennedy confirmed Sunday on Fox News that he will now be “actively” campaigning for Trump.
The Kennedy campaign did not immediately respond to DCNF’s request for comment.
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I have lived through the tragedies of the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert F. Kennedy.
I have live through the assassination attempt of President Ronald Reagan and now President Donald J. Trump.
I was a JFK Democrat, but like Ronald Reagan, the Democrat Party left me far behind.
It was a momentous experience to watch Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. endorse President Donald J. Trump.
These two men have joined together to save America from what has now become the party of traitors and domestic enemies our these United States of America, the Democrat Party and its candidates Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
Time to stand up with RFK, Jr., DJT and J.D. to make America truly great, once again.
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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is suspending his 2024 presidential bid and encouraging his supports to vote for former President Donald J. Trump. The scion of the Kennedy political clan made the announcement during a press conference in Arizona. Speculation is rife that Kennedy will join Trump at an event in the state later this evening.
“Sixteen months ago in April 2023, I launched my campaign for President of the United States,” Kennedy said—thanking the hard work of his supporters, volunteers, and campaign staff. He continued, ominously stating: “In the name of ‘saving democracy’ the Democratic party set out to dismantle it.”
“Many months ago, I promised the American people I’d withdraw from the race if I became a spoiler,” Kennedy continued before announcing he was suspending his campaign and would remove his name from the ballot in about ten battleground states, encouraging his supporters to cast their ballots for former President Trump.
Kennedy’s exit and soft endorsement of Trump could benefit the latter in the 2024 presidential race. Election polls show a close race between Trump and Kamala Harris, and Kennedy has consistently polled between three and five points among voters. This significant slice of the electorate could put Trump over the top in November.
This week, speculation that Kennedy would exit the race hit a fever pitch following a series of public statements made by his running mate, Nicole Shanahan. Late Thursday night, the Kenendy campaign submitted paperwork withdrawing RFK Jr.’s name from the Arizona presidential ballot line.
The National Pulse reported earlier on Friday the Hollywood comedian and Kennedy supporter Rob Schneider posted a letter on X (formerly Twitter) claiming that the independent candidate would, in fact, be dropping from the race and backing former President Trump. In his letter, Scheider himself also stated he’d support Trump in November.
Earlier this month, RFK Jr. said the Democrats under Kamala Harris and Joe Biden would be “unrecognizable” to his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, and father, Robert ‘Bobby’ Kennedy Sr. Meanwhile, a leaked call between Kennedy and Trump following Trump’s near-assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania, revealed the former President discussing the possibility of Kennedy joining the next Trump administration, possibly with a role investigating vaccine safety.
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