President-elect Donald Trump tapped vaccine-skeptic and former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday, setting in motion the possibility of a mass culling of federal workers and departments Kennedy deems unnecessary. Kennedy would oversee 80,000 employees across 13 federal agencies.
But Dan Troy, a former chief counsel for the FDA during President George W. Bush's first term, said that despite Kennedy’s lofty goals, there’s unlikely to be "seismic changes” within the agency. If Kennedy—or other members of Trump’s proposed cabinet—follow through with staff purges, they’ll lack the framework for altering the agency’s course, Troy argued.
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