Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — a attainable candidate for a job in Donald Trump’s cupboard, ought to Trump retake the White Home — claims {that a} new Trump administration would instantly advise towards the usage of fluoride in U.S. public water techniques.
Kennedy, a former presidential candidate who has endorsed Trump and a prominent vaccine skeptic, steered this could occur on the primary day of a brand new Trump administration.
For many years, U.S. well being regulators have advisable including a small quantity of fluoride to ingesting water provides to stop tooth decay. Fluoride at such a low dose is usually thought-about each safe and effective to guard oral well being.
“On January 20, the Trump White Home will advise all U.S. water techniques to take away fluoride from public water. Fluoride is an industrial waste related to arthritis, bone fractures, bone most cancers, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental problems, and thyroid illness,” Kennedy posted Saturday on X, previously Twitter.
The Trump marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark about Kennedy’s remarks.
Trump and Kennedy, an environmental lawyer who tried to stroll again his criticism of the COVID vaccine throughout his presidential marketing campaign, have each floated a health-focused position for him — possibly a post commanding health agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
At his rally final weekend at Madison Sq. Backyard, Trump mentioned he would let Kennedy “go wild on well being, … go wild on the medicines.” On Friday in Nevada, Trump said Kennedy would also be “accountable for ladies’s well being.”
Kennedy, based on a video obtained by CNN, advised supporters he is likely to be given control of more than one health-focused agency.
“President Trump has promised me … management of the general public well being companies, that are [the Health and Human Services Department] and its sub-agencies … after which additionally the [Department of Agriculture], which is vital to creating America wholesome. As a result of we’ve bought to get off of seed oils, and we’ve bought to get off of pesticide-intensive agriculture,” Kennedy reportedly mentioned.
