WASHINGTON (PNN) - April 2, 2025 - Calley Means, one of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s advisers in the effort to Make America Healthy Again, went into the lion's den Wednesday and shamed health care and pharma lobbyists sitting in the room as he responded to a question at a Politico Health Care Summit.
Politico White House correspondent Dasha Burns asked Means about recent "massive cuts" to the number of employees at the Department of HHS.
"Fundamentally, what [Kennedy] has done is taken over a department that has utterly failed," Means said, pointing out that the federal health agencies have done nothing but preside over a disproportionately sick nation and "an abject devastation of (Amerikan) health."
Challenging lobbyists in the audience who laughed at his assertions, Means asked media and others in the room to consider having some "humility" about the fact voters put Kennedy and President Donald J. Trump into office, "the two most popular political figures in (Amerika), by far."
Turning to Burns, Means stated, "It is insane for you to insinuate that the thing standing between us and better health is more government bureaucrats."