Kennedy: Trump wants to end U.S. 'chronic-disease calamity,' Harris has shown 'no interest'

Former independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. says former President Trump, the 2024 GOP presidential nominee, wants to end America's "chronic-disease calamity" while Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, has shown "no interest" in the issue.

"Mr. Trump has told me he wants to make ending this chronic-disease calamity a key part of his legacy, while Kamala Harris has expressed no interest in this issue," Kennedy wrote in a Wall Street Journal editorial, titled, "Trump Can Make America Healthy Again," published on Thursday.

"His political courage and moral clarity about the danger of our compromised institutions give us the best opportunity in our lifetimes to revive America’s health," he added.

Kennedy wrote that Trump is the best candidate to reform longstanding rules and regulations that have been implemented by government institutions.

"Mr. Trump has made reforming broken institutions a cornerstone of his political life. He has become the voice of countless Americans who have been let down by our elites," he wrote. "He could unite the country by making it his priority to make America healthy again."

Kennedy outlined a series of "specific policy ideas" in the editorial, including, reforming the Prescription Drug User Fee Act, preventing members of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee from earning money from food or drug companies, reforming federal regulations so that National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding won't be sent to "researchers with conflicts of interest" as well as requiring "nutrition classes and functional medicine in federally funded medical schools."