Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

You know, my uncle, Ted Kennedy, conducted hearings in 1970 about agency-captured FDA. And at that time, the conclusion of that hearing is that the FDA was no longer serving the public interest. It had ceased being a public health agency. It was now an agency whose primary focus was maximizing corporate profit-taking.

You know, my uncle, Ted Kennedy, conducted hearings in 1970 about agency-captured FDA. And at that time, the conclusion of that hearing is that the FDA was no longer serving the public interest. It had ceased being a public health agency. It was now an agency whose primary focus was maximizing corporate profit-taking.

And I can point to 100 of those examples of agency capture, but probably the one most familiar to the American public because there was two big Netflix documentaries on it. One of them called Dope Sick was the opioid epidemic where people from Sackler family that own Purdue Pharmaceuticals captured a FDA official and persuaded him to eliminate

And I can point to 100 of those examples of agency capture, but probably the one most familiar to the American public because there was two big Netflix documentaries on it. One of them called Dope Sick was the opioid epidemic where people from Sackler family that own Purdue Pharmaceuticals captured a FDA official and persuaded him to eliminate

And I can point to 100 of those examples of agency capture, but probably the one most familiar to the American public because there was two big Netflix documentaries on it. One of them called Dope Sick was the opioid epidemic where people from Sackler family that own Purdue Pharmaceuticals captured a FDA official and persuaded him to eliminate

And you could argue that as a direct result of that, a million young Americans die. We're losing over 100,000 young people every year from drug overdoses. And to put that in perspective, during the 20-year Vietnam War, we lost 56,000 American kids. Wow. We're losing double that number every year from opioid addiction and overdoses. That's insane.

And you could argue that as a direct result of that, a million young Americans die. We're losing over 100,000 young people every year from drug overdoses. And to put that in perspective, during the 20-year Vietnam War, we lost 56,000 American kids. Wow. We're losing double that number every year from opioid addiction and overdoses. That's insane.

And you could argue that as a direct result of that, a million young Americans die. We're losing over 100,000 young people every year from drug overdoses. And to put that in perspective, during the 20-year Vietnam War, we lost 56,000 American kids. Wow. We're losing double that number every year from opioid addiction and overdoses. That's insane.

And that is a direct result of agency capture and agency corruption. And what we're trying to do now at the agency, which we're doing, is we brought in extraordinary leaders. who are now going to do, make sure that we do good science, gold standard science, which was what those agencies used to do. And that we're going to purge the entire agency of conflicts of interest.

And that is a direct result of agency capture and agency corruption. And what we're trying to do now at the agency, which we're doing, is we brought in extraordinary leaders. who are now going to do, make sure that we do good science, gold standard science, which was what those agencies used to do. And that we're going to purge the entire agency of conflicts of interest.

And that is a direct result of agency capture and agency corruption. And what we're trying to do now at the agency, which we're doing, is we brought in extraordinary leaders. who are now going to do, make sure that we do good science, gold standard science, which was what those agencies used to do. And that we're going to purge the entire agency of conflicts of interest.

Yeah, well, that's where Doge came in, really, is that we offered – initially we offered a buyout for anybody who wanted to leave. And we made clear that people should leave if they didn't share this new mission. And we got, uh, a lot of people left the agency. Um, and, uh, you know, then we came back and there, there's tremendous duplication. The agency is tremendous redundancies.

Yeah, well, that's where Doge came in, really, is that we offered – initially we offered a buyout for anybody who wanted to leave. And we made clear that people should leave if they didn't share this new mission. And we got, uh, a lot of people left the agency. Um, and, uh, you know, then we came back and there, there's tremendous duplication. The agency is tremendous redundancies.

Yeah, well, that's where Doge came in, really, is that we offered – initially we offered a buyout for anybody who wanted to leave. And we made clear that people should leave if they didn't share this new mission. And we got, uh, a lot of people left the agency. Um, and, uh, you know, then we came back and there, there's tremendous duplication. The agency is tremendous redundancies.

We had a hundred comms departments. We have 40 it departments, 40 procurement departments, uh, And on and on. And so we were reorganizing the agency to consolidate those things. One, to eliminate redundancy and streamline the agency.

We had a hundred comms departments. We have 40 it departments, 40 procurement departments, uh, And on and on. And so we were reorganizing the agency to consolidate those things. One, to eliminate redundancy and streamline the agency.

We had a hundred comms departments. We have 40 it departments, 40 procurement departments, uh, And on and on. And so we were reorganizing the agency to consolidate those things. One, to eliminate redundancy and streamline the agency.

Most importantly, to redirect and recalibrate its course so that everybody there knows that every day, if you want your job, you got to wake up in the morning and be thinking, how am I going to end the chronic disease epidemic today?

Most importantly, to redirect and recalibrate its course so that everybody there knows that every day, if you want your job, you got to wake up in the morning and be thinking, how am I going to end the chronic disease epidemic today?

Most importantly, to redirect and recalibrate its course so that everybody there knows that every day, if you want your job, you got to wake up in the morning and be thinking, how am I going to end the chronic disease epidemic today?