Meet the Trump Nominees Who Could Gut Abortion Rights Across Government Programs
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services Secretary
The Department of Health and Human Services—the government agency that employs more than 80,000 people and oversees the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institutes of Health, among other offices—has “the most opportunities to enact anti-abortion policies,” according to Katie O’Connor, director of federal abortion policy at the National Women’s Law Center. (If you have any doubts, consider that Project 2025 recommends it be rebranded as the “Department of Life.”)
