RFK Jr. Is Doing Well

It’s been just over a year since Kennedy took office at HHS, so it’s a good time to ask: How’s he doing?

Jeffrey Folks | April 22, 2026

There was skepticism when President Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to be secretary of Health and Human Services.  He was grilled by Democrats in Congress over his vaccine statements, and there were even Republicans, including Senators Tillis, Murkowski, Cassidy, and McConnell, who questioned the choice.

It’s been just over a year since Kennedy took office, so it’s a good time to ask: How’s he doing?  Compared to his predecessor in HHS — whom no one can name, actually — what has he accomplished so far?

In his short time in office, RFK Jr. has done a lot to save America.  He has directed food manufacturers to remove artificial dyes from their products.  He has overseen the issuance of a revised food pyramid stressing whole foods over processed ones and restoring saturated fat to the diet.  He has revised guidelines for vaccinations that are not based on the science.  He has stepped up studies of chronic childhood disease, and he has ordered unhealthy processed foods to be removed from SNAP and school lunch programs.  He has also proposed reinstating the presidential fitness test in schools, and his MAHA Commission is charged with examining the role of fitness across the board.

Certainly, RFK Jr. is facing an uphill battle in changing America’s lifestyle choices.  A brief tour of any grocery store reveals part of the problem: aisle upon aisle of chips, cookies, sweetened baked goods, overly salted canned goods, and an oversupply of meat and other animal products — far more than our ancestors consumed even fifty years ago.  These choices mirror the habits of consumers.  If the public wanted more soy milk and kale crackers, these items........

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