President-elect Donald Trump said during a press conference on Monday that his nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., will not take away vaccines like the polio vaccine.
Trump made the remarks after a report from The New York Times last week revealed that a lawyer who is helping Kennedy select federal health officials for the incoming administration had petitioned the federal government just two years ago to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine.
A reporter at the press conference asked Trump if he wanted Kennedy to revoke any vaccines.
“No, I want him to come back with a report as to what he thinks,” Trump said. “We’re going to find out a lot. We’re doing two things. We’re going to have tremendous cost savings … that’s a minimum. And we’re also going to have, I think, very serious discussions about certain things, whether it’s…
