Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed to improve the health of the United States by cleaning up the public health agencies that have become “sock puppets” of various industries.

Kennedy, who ran as an independent presidential candidate before suspending his campaign and endorsing former President Donald Trump, explained in a new ad that he is partnering with the former president to “transform” the nation’s medicine and agriculture. He stated that the main tactic to do this would be to “clean up” public health agencies like the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

“Those agencies have become sock puppets of the industries they’re supposed to regulate,” Kennedy said. “President Trump and I are going to replace the corrupt industry-captured officials with honest public service. We’re going to steer resources to meet our nation’s biggest health challenge: chronic disease. We’re going to identify its root cause, and we’re going to eliminate those exposures.”

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— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) September 22, 2024

Kennedy also vowed to remove “toxic additives and pesticide residues” from the nation’s food supply, as well as supporting people who choose “alternative and complementary” medicine. The goal, Kennedy explained, is to bring the U.S. back to being “the healthiest nation on Earth.”

Earlier this month, Kennedy pitched how he would address the U.S.’s health crisis, which would include repurposing the NIH’s $42 billion budget to find the root causes of chronic disease. 

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Since endorsing Trump, Kennedy has promoted the motto “Make America Healthy Again,” a play on Trump’s “Make America Great Again” motto. Kennedy said during his endorsement speech that if given the chance to properly address the nation’s health problems, it would see its “chronic disease burden lift dramatically” within two years.

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Trump also promoted a desire to investigate the cause of the nation’s “decadeslong increase in chronic health problems.” He said should he win in November, his administration would establish “a panel of top experts” to investigate this and Kennedy would be “very much involved.”