By Breitbart. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is on his way to Make America Healthy Again.

The United States Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Thursday morning to lead the Department of Health and Human Services by a vote of 52 to 48.

Kennedy’s confirmation is a watershed moment in the federal government’s role in the health of the American people, likely the most significant development since the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the face of waning Senate Republican recalcitrance to Trump, was the lone Republican voting against his nomination, joining 47 Democrats. He also opposed Trump’s now-confirmed choices to lead the Pentagon and Director of National Intelligence, Pete Hegseth and Tulsi Gabbard, respectively.

“Mr. Kennedy failed to prove he is the best possible person to lead America’s largest health agency,” McConnell said to cap a typical longwinded statement. “As he takes office, I sincerely hope Mr. Kennedy will choose not to sow further doubt and division but to restore trust in our public health institutions. (Read more from “Senate Confirms Robert F. Kennedy Jr. To Lead New Era in Restoring American Health” HERE)

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Sleep Specialist Backing RFK Jr.’s MAHA Movement Pushes to Change School Start Times in America

By Fox News. A sleep expert who is backing Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement is pushing for something he says people aren’t talking about enough: sleep.

Jeffrey Rose, a New York-based clinical hypnotist and sleep specialist, is a friend and longtime supporter of Kennedy, who was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday as Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary in President Donald Trump’s cabinet.

“[The MAHA] movement means a lot to me because I’m preaching health all the time,” said Rose in an interview with Fox News Digital.

Rose said there is chronic sleep deprivation across the country, but more specifically in teenage students.

“These high school kids are not able to be sharp and focused and to learn, it doesn’t matter how good the schools are or the teachers or the reputation. Kids are exhausted in school.” (Read more from “Sleep Specialist Backing RFK Jr.’s MAHA Movement Pushes to Change School Start Times in America” HERE)

A shadowy, leftist group has targeted Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

Fight For The Future, a tech advocacy group with leftist leadership, launched a campaign on Jan. 28 to sink the confirmation of Kennedy, whom it smeared as a “bigoted conspiracy theorist” — despite the group’s adherence to wild theories that men can be women, and that President Donald Trump is a “wannabe fascist.” The organization published a petition to pressure senators to keep Kennedy out of office, and a scorecard tracking how lawmakers plan to vote on the nomination.

Kennedy has been a long-time advocate of reforming public health since the 1990s, and he has become the figurehead of the Make America Healthy Again movement. But Fight For The Future claims he will “destroy[] healthcare,” even though America currently spends the most money on healthcare compared to other countries and has a vastly unhealthy population to show for it. Recent polling data also shows the MAHA movement is popular among Americans.

Fight For The Future opposed the “Kids Online Safety Act,” which would have required online platforms to take “reasonable measures” to protect minors from “sexual exploitation and abuse.” Aylo — the parent company of PornHub which admitted to profiting from sex trafficking — gave “$50,000 or more” to the Fight For The Future, according to the group’s website.

DuckDuckGo and Yelp are also listed as Fight For the Future “supporters” who have donated “$50,000 or more.” Pinterest gave “$25,000 or more,” and Proton — the parent company of encrypted email service Proton Mail — gave “$10,000 or more.” (Read more from “Leftist Smear Group Attacking RFK Jr. Led by ‘Queer Trans Activist,’ Funded by Pornhub’s Parent Company” HERE)

In a surprising turn of events, Senate Democrats have signaled an unexpected openness to confirming Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for a key position in the incoming Trump Administration despite his controversial stance on vaccines and other issues the left is against. Known for his outspoken views and challenges to the establishment, RFK Jr. has recently been a divisive figure within his own party. However, some Democrats now reconsidering their opposition to their willingness to confirm Kennedy, significantly shifting the Democratic Party’s approach to fringe candidates.

As reported by The Hill, Democrats are signaling their cooperation to allow Kennedy to become the next secretary of Health and Human Services under the new Trump Administration. The outlet noted that prominent left-wing voices such as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) are at least considering voting for Kennedy. They cite shared concerns about the growing influence of corporate interests in food production and a desire to promote a country with fewer chemicals in its products. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) is also among the Democrats that would back Kennedy.

“I think Bernie will give him a fair review,” a source close to the senator said. “I definitely think his Senate office will use the opportunity to point out the shortcomings of the industrial food system, supply chains, etc. I think they’ve been doing a little of that already.”

Lawmakers are notoriously tight-lipped about their votes ahead of many Cabinet fights. The optics of backing any nominee by Trump put most Democrats in a tricky position. And Kennedy in particular makes things more complicated. Democrats spent a good portion of the election last year trying to avoid the Independent candidate after he changed parties. Those who didn’t ignore him outright tried to stop him from gaining popularity with voters, concerned that any type of third-party support could spell trouble for them in the general election.

(Read more from “Senate Democrats Unexpectedly Open to Confirming RFK Jr.” HERE)

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The new movement to “Make America Healthy Again” is incredibly popular.

According to a recent YouGov poll released last week, Americans were three times as likely to hold a favorable opinion of the MAHA movement than they were to hold an either “very” or “somewhat unfavorable” perspective. Branding aside, Americans overwhelmingly favor the major pillars of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s proposals to reform the food industry as secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) even as opinions of Kennedy himself were profoundly polarized.

This YouGov survey is fascinating. Americans from both parties are overwhelmingly united behind Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s food reforms despite views of RFK himself becoming profoundly polarized. https://t.co/72IISsqw9A pic.twitter.com/vuPxgtgy85

— Tristan Justice (@JusticeTristan) December 18, 2024

Majorities of both Republicans and Democrats were united in support of “requiring nutrition education in federally funded medical schools, banning certain food additives, funding research into alternative and holistic approaches to health, increasing restrictions on the use of pesticides in agriculture, and banning processed foods from public school lunches,” according to the poll.

Out of the 1,064 adults surveyed online between Nov. 19-20, respondents were most united on rules to prioritize nutritional education in medical schools, with nearly 8 in 10 who said they supported the proposal. However, as outlined in my new book Fat And Unhappy: How “Body Positivity” Is Killing Us (and How to Save Yourself), U.S. medical programs are already failing to meet the minimum standards for nutrition classes set by the National Academy of Sciences. Just 27 percent of medical schools met the academy’s recommendation of a 25-hour minimum embedded in curriculums, according to a 2010 survey.

Exactly what students are taught about nutrition in medical school meanwhile remains controversial as the public health establishment still promotes the low-fat diet as conventional wisdom. Kennedy, on the other hand, has rightfully condemned the low-fat dogma promoted by the food industry, though the YouGov survey did not go into details about how the potential new HHS secretary might reform nutrition curriculums in higher education. (Read more from “Americans Overwhelmingly Support MAHA, RFK’s Plans To Reform The Food Industry” HERE)

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