RFK Jr. Surprised to Learn He'd Cut a Grant For Youth Diabetes Research

Image by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Developments Earlier this month, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary and noted anti-vaccine crackpot Robert Kennedy Jr. admitted that thousands of laid-off workers had to be reinstated due to "mistakes" made by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency. Musk's henchmen's cuts to the agency's many health programs are likely to be devastating. But during his first TV interview as HHS secretary with CBS News, Kennedy appeared bafflingly uninformed about the programs that are being shut down. After CBS chief medical correspondent Jon LaPook asked him if he had personally approved a proposed $11 billion cut to local and state programs, including efforts to fight addiction and foster childhood vaccination, Kennedy appeared to be dumbfounded. "No, I'm not familiar with those cuts," he said. "We'd have to go... the cuts were mainly DEI cuts, which the president ordered," Kennedy added while visibly struggling to maintain his ... Read full article.