Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. arrives for a Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission meeting at Dept. of Health and Human Services headquarters in Washington, D.C., Sept. 9, 2025. (Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images) | AP

People close to Kennedy would like him to be health secretary for eight years, cementing the MAHA-MAGA alliance.

W ASHINGTON—Calley Means, a confidant to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is taking a permanent post in the Trump administration, where he is expected to serve as a bridge between the Make America Healthy Again movement and President Trump’s broader MAGA coalition.

Brennan observed that Cassidy decided to vote for Kennedy after receiving assurance that a key CDC vaccine advisory committee would be maintained “without changes”; Kennedy went on to fire all of its members, anyway, and appoint new ones, including vaccine skeptics, in their place.

Colin Jost is baffled by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s reaction to a pharmaceutical executive collapsing in the Oval Office on Thursday. RFK Jr.’s quick departure from the room has sparked confusion and speculation,

The former political journalist has written a combustive portrait of America, President Trump and the scandal with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that upended her career.