Posted on 11/08/2024 2:20:23 PM PST by T Ruth
Former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who backed President-elect Donald Trump, said Wednesday that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) bureaucracy should be winnowed down.
Before the election, Trump had floated Kennedy as having a role in his administration, namely targeting federal agencies that oversee health care, food, and drugs.
“There are entire departments, like the nutrition department at the FDA ... that have to go—that are not doing their job. They’re not protecting our kids,” Kennedy told MSNBC on Wednesday.
When he was asked if he would remove any health agencies, Kennedy said, “to eliminate the agencies, as long as it requires congressional approval, I wouldn’t be doing that.”
“I can get the corruption out of the agencies,” he added.
Kennedy added in a separate interview with Fox News earlier this week that “we don’t know what I’m going to do. I talked to the president about it yesterday, and he asked me what I wanted, and I said, we’re developing a proposal now.”
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At a Madison Square Garden rally last month, Trump reiterated that he would have Kennedy join his administration and “let him go wild on health.”
“I’m going to let him go wild on the food. I’m going to let him go wild on the medicines,” Trump said.
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“I think he’s a he’s a good man, and he believes, he believes the environment, the healthy people. He wants healthy people, he wants healthy food. And he’s going to do it. He’s going to have a big chance to do it, because we do need that.”
Kennedy and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) are also part of the president-elect’s transition team, along with Trump’s two sons Eric and Donald Jr., businessman Howard Lutnick, and former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) executive Linda McMahon.
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Really sounds like Team Trump is distancing themselves from him. Doesn’t it?
Do it!
Everyone is very heady and excited after Trump’s big win, but remember, the swamp and everyday practical politics still exists
Post WWII history has been one unbroken upward trend line of more government, more Fed.gov, an ever-larger Federal Register - all fed by ever-growing debt in our printed, fiat money
that tells me there will be no fundamental change at any Fed.gov agency, besides simply putting in non-leftists at the top, and limiting woke/marxist insanity for 4 years.
I wish RFK luck to take down something/anything at FDA.
The Libs and the Media fluffers are going to scream at the mention of any of the Bureaucracy being dismantled.
Doesn’t sound like it to me. He’s already in and he’s going to do what he can legally do and then get congress to change what he can’t.
Holy cow, RFK almost sounds like a conservative republican
We need to be in constant prayer for the protection of Trump’s Transition Team, both now and throughout his term.
And that needs to change. It will take Congressional action to do that.
Civil service must be subordinate to the executive branch. That is true regardless of whether we have a Democrat or a Republican (or any other party) in control of the Presidency.
The President must be able to fire anyone in the civil service at will if they are deemed to be obstructing executive directions.
The current civil service bureaucracy is 90% Democrat and openly insubordinate to a Republican President. That must change.
Does the FDA do anything good at all?
It exists to protect us from health freedom and to limit competition.
Maybe it should be replaced with a totally new, narrowly focused entity in fly-over country.
The school meals are disgusting.
To control a Federal agency you need a few things:
—Someone with expertise who knows exactly where the leftist bodies are buried. That means no political hacks appointed, that means don’t appoint someone to an agency outside their knowledge. They need to be skilled at planning and execution—detail oriented. They must not delegate to others and assume it will be done.
—No lengthy speeches or press conferences or junkets around the country. Do it first. You can brag about it later.
—Someone with a hard work ethic and fanatical determination. That means they need to be young and/or strong. This is no place for the tired elderly who get the job as a reward for services rendered. This is no place for someone who wants to make friends at DC cocktail parties. This is no place for industry lobbyists who want to feather their own nest in a revolving door scenario.
—No professors or academics. They lack the toughness and the real world knowledge for the dirty job ahead.
—They must be ready to move offices, including the HQ, to undesirable locations as a tool in the toolkit.
—The perfect must always be the enemy of the good. Do something immediately—then work on better solutions later.
—Replace every single political appointee with your people who meet all of the above criteria.
—If a plan is not working, try something else. Repeat as needed. Keep it simple. Measure it carefully. Demand specific and measurable results.
—Do it fast. You might have a Democratic House in two years. A sense of urgency is critical.
—Let your team know the plan before you hire them. Let them know they are going to work their tails off—if that is not good for them you need to know now.
It should but it won’t
Trump can do a lot to break things up and hopefully he will
You’re right about that. Hard to believe, but many of our fellow Americans are so far gone that they honestly want anyone who disagrees with them dead, starting with our President (who they’ve already tried to kill, live on national TV), and their rabid frothing hasn’t abated one iota since they got swatted. Lunatics, with an urge to violence.
Any federal manager can be sent to Alaska or North Dakota at any time for any reason.
Any cabinet official who is unwilling to do that to enforce their will should not be hired and/or should be fired.
There are no excuses.
I think making it part of the executive branch allows the politics of the executive into the bureaucracy. It functioned better when it was under the Civil Service Commission. If you want normal hiring & firing control, get rid of the influence of the federal unions. Rewrite the new employment regs in that light. I think we have seen since JFK (LBJ made it law!) letting the union virus in the bureaucracy. Unionization combined with Carter’s stupid 1975 civil service bill which set up OPM has moved it left and with significantly increased politicization.
Yup, that’s the way to do it
The unions only affect employees.
The managers have no union. You can do whatever you want to federal managers—and they know it too.
How did you come up with that?
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