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By Thomas Gallatin, Patriot Post, April 14, 2025

RFK Jr. raises the question about the responsibility of healthy living for anyone receiving government handouts.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was recently interviewed by CBS News. It was his first TV interview since becoming HHS chief.

The wide-ranging interview focused primarily on Kennedy’s touted Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda. For Kennedy, a key feature of MAHA is addressing the quality of the foods Americans eat. As he contends, the “FDA needs to start regulating food again and saying, you know, not just when food is adulterated, when there’s bacteria in it, let’s look at the chemicals in it.”

CBS was concerned about DOGE’s recent funding cuts to various programs, which clearly imply that these cuts would hurt Americans’ health benefits. However, Kennedy pushed back, stating, “HHS’s job is to make America healthy, and we’re spending $1.9 trillion a year, and people are not getting healthy. … What Elon said is that when you do a disruption of this, a lot of times, 80% of the people that get cut … You may make mistakes, as much as 20[%], and then you go back and remedy that.” ….

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