U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) said having Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) would be a “breath of fresh air” after what Americans went through under the Biden administration during the COVID-19 pandemic.
During a Monday appearance on WBRC’s “Good Day Alabama,” Tuberville explained that he, as a member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pension committee, would soon meet with RFK Jr. to discuss his ideas for cleaning up America’s food supply and investigating vaccine protocols.
“I am for having food that is good for us and not hurtful to us,” Tuberville said. “Even my kids six, seven months ago, said, ‘Dad, we like this guy. You know, we want to have a good life and live a little bit longer; if we’re putting things in our food that is going to cut our lives shorter, we want to straighten that out.’ So, I’m looking forward to talking to him. I think that he’s opened a new can of worms, so to speak, of hey, let’s look at things we haven’t looked at for years.”
Tuberville said his meeting with RFK Jr. will be based on facts, not conspiracy theories, as some of his critics have alleged.
“He’s [RFK] done a lot of work on this," Tuberville added. "Again, he’ll have a lot of say who the new CDC director is, the NIH director — people that oversee our health.”
Tuberville shared some of RFK Jr.’s skepticism about what Americans have been putting in their bodies, particularly the COVID vaccine.
“During COVID and even after COVID, we’ve been in a tailspin. I was in all these Fauci hearings, and there was a lot of untruthful things said, and shouldn’t’ve been, that were hid from the American consumer,” Tuberville continued. “But we’ve got to get back to letting people know exactly what they’re putting in their bodies, why we’re doing it. Don’t be guessing at it. We shouldn’t be used as a trial guinea pig, you know, and that’s basically what happened during the COVID vaccine. I took it twice just to be able to leave the country, but there are a lot of things now that say that it could be harmful. Again, we’ll leave that to the experts. That’s what we do; we should protect the American citizen. And I think Robert Kennedy will be a breath of fresh air, and we’ll see. There’s a lot of people that said they might not vote for him for confirmation, but again, come in, sell yourself: what are you going to do, how are you going to do it, how are you going to run this department. And if you do it the right way, I think people will be very appreciative.”
Tuberville also spoke positively of two more of Trump’s cabinet picks, former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) for Attorney General and Pete Hegseth for Defense Secretary.
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Tuberville said he hoped the cabinet picks could move smoothly through the Senate confirmation process but didn’t rule out using the recess appointment clause if necessary.
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