By Liz Essley Whyte
Dr. Robert Redfield, who led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during President Trump's first-term administration, asked senators in a letter to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr., despite the nominee for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services attacking Redfield in his 2021 book.
Redfield, who supports the "Make America Healthy Again" movement, worked with the Trump campaign to help mesh the "MAGA-MAHA" alliance between the Trump and Kennedy camps. "Kennedy is not anti-vaccine," Redfield wrote in a letter to senators earlier this week. "His inquiries prove he's more science-oriented than many of his critics."
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