Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist whom Trump has chosen to run HHS, would have the capacity to roll back core public health protections, including protections for people with cancer, and dismantle research related to infectious diseases, public health experts warn.
The Trump administration did exactly what it said it would do to disorient anyone involved in making policy or touched by it. The president and his crew have “flooded the zone”—the term and the image are theirs, as is the strategy of dropping a flurry of executive orders and memoranda that shake the foundations of the American system of government, raising questions of legality and constitutionality, and, above all, making it a challenge for anyone to see the entire picture and think strategically.
