Kennedy added, "The president has made himself the answer to my 20-year prayer that God would put me in a position to end the chronic disease epidemic — and that's exactly what my team and I will do ...

Kennedy dismissed any speculation he would run for president again as a “flat-out lie” and an attempt to “drive a wedge” between himself and Trump.

A nonprofit anti-vaccine group founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said it is funding a lawsuit against him, in his capacity as secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, for failing to establish a task force to promote the development of safer childhood vaccines.