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What to know about RFK Jr.’s stances on key health issues and what he could do at HHS

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What To Know About RFK Jr.’s Stances on Key Health Issues and What He Could Do at HHS

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President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, is coming into the nomination process in an unusual position, with a long list of his own policy priorities separate from the president-elect’s, and a public promise by Trump to let him “go wild” on his ideas. Kennedy Jr.