Ron DeSantis considers Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for FDA or CDC role

Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, has walked back suggestions that he would appoint Robert F Kennedy Jr as head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) if he was elected US president in 2024. "I was asked about appointing him to be VP and I said 'he's a liberal'. So I wouldn't do that," he said. He added that he would appoint Kennedy to a bipartisan task force on the handling of the pandemic. Kennedy has been heavily criticised for his anti-vaccine stance.