Trump transition co-chair pours cold water on RFK Jr and Elon Musk landing Cabinet roles

Trump-Vance campaign transition co-chair Howard Lutnick doused cold water on speculation that tech guru Elon Musk and onetime Independent presidential hopeful Robert F.Kennedy Jr.

could land Cabinet posts.While President Donald Trump has envisioned a health-related role for Kennedy, the scion will not get to helm the Department of Health and Human Services, according to Lutnick.“No, of course not,” Lutnick told CNN’s “The Source with Kaitlan Collins” Wednesday.“He’s not going to be the Secretary, no.”“That’s not what he wants to do,” he added.

“He just wants data, and he wants to prove things [about vaccines] are wrong.And he says, ‘If I can’t prove they’re wrong, that’s fine.

But if I can, I can save millions of Americans’ lives and make their lives better.'”In order to become Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, one must get confirmed by the Senate, which would likely pose a serious uphill battle for Kennedy given his skepticism on vaccines.Kennedy, who endorsed Trump in August, has publicly stated that he’d get “control” over the major public health agencies as part of the initiative to “Make America Healthy Again.”“[What] Trump has promised me is – is control of the public health agencies, which are HHS and its sub-agencies, CDC, FDA, NIH and a few others, and then also the USDA,” Kennedy said in a video obtained by CNN.

“We’ve got to get off of seed oils, and we’ve got to get off of pesticide-intensive agriculture.”The Kennedy scion said at a gala event in September that he wasn’t promised a position point-blank in exchange for his endorsement of Trump due to legal concerns about a quid pro quo.Trump has crowed to his supporters about bringing Kennedy on in some capacity.

“I’m going to let him go wild on health.I’m going to let him go wild on the food.

I’m going to let him go wild on the medicines,” Trump bellowed out during his Madison Square Garden rally Sunday....