Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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I think we're calling it Trumparency.
It's halfway transparent.
Yeah, there you go.
Well, there were a lot of people in the agency who were obstructing any kind of change.
And part of the challenge of running an agency this size is to change that institutional culture.
And you're only bringing in โ there's 82,000 people.
We only have 250 political appointees.
They have to be good leaders.
They have to be able to work with the bureaucracy.
You need the bureaucracy.
A lot of these people are very gifted.
They're idealistic.
They want to do a good job.
The leadership has been very bad for so long that it's not allowed them to do what they want.
And, you know, we need to reignite that feeling of idealism.
Do you feel good about it?
Yeah, I think we're doing a really good job.
I mean, I think we've done more this year than any health secretary has done in history, than HHS has done in a single year at any time.
And I think we're dramatically โ