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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “We're standing up now and petitioning to Secretary Rollins…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

RFK Jr., Sec. Brooke Rollins hold press conference on MANA, SNAP waivers

Published June 11, 2025 | Video Starts at 10:31

And I want to thank the governors of Brook and I have been all over the country to West Virginia, to Arizona, to Utah, and working with these governors. We're standing up now and petitioning to Secretary Rollins for snap waivers. And people have answered the call and we're very, very happy with that. And we have two of the leaders, I think just Governor Sanders, Huckabee Sanders, and Governor Perun, who we're here today. (10:31–10:38)

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Asserts that petitions for SNAP waivers are being made to Secretary Rollins.

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“The chronic disease rate in our country was around 3% [when I was 10 years old].”
RFK Jr., Sec. Brooke Rollins hold press conference on MANA, SNAP waivers | Uploaded June 11, 2025 | 05:35-05:40
“A chronic disease in our children is up to 60%.”
RFK Jr., Sec. Brooke Rollins hold press conference on MANA, SNAP waivers | Uploaded June 11, 2025 | 05:43-05:47
“We spend about $1.7 trillion a year treating [chronic disease].”
RFK Jr., Sec. Brooke Rollins hold press conference on MANA, SNAP waivers | Uploaded June 11, 2025 | 05:47-05:52
“75% of our kids can't qualify for military service.”
RFK Jr., Sec. Brooke Rollins hold press conference on MANA, SNAP waivers | Uploaded June 11, 2025 | 06:04-06:08
“In 1986 there were 11 vaccines on the schedule.”
RFK Jr., Sec. Brooke Rollins hold press conference on MANA, SNAP waivers | Uploaded June 11, 2025 | 31:51-31:55
“Today a compliant child must take between 69 and 92 vaccines to stay in school in some states.”
RFK Jr., Sec. Brooke Rollins hold press conference on MANA, SNAP waivers | Uploaded June 11, 2025 | 31:55-32:05
“Not one of them [vaccines] has been safety tested in a pre licensing placebo controlled trial.”
RFK Jr., Sec. Brooke Rollins hold press conference on MANA, SNAP waivers | Uploaded June 11, 2025 | 32:05-32:11
“The cost [of treating chronic disease] is going up 2% faster than our economy is growing.”
RFK Jr., Sec. Brooke Rollins hold press conference on MANA, SNAP waivers | Uploaded June 11, 2025 | 05:53-06:01
“The exposures are coming from chemical additives in our food.”
RFK Jr., Sec. Brooke Rollins hold press conference on MANA, SNAP waivers | Uploaded June 11, 2025 | 06:58-07:04
“Taxpayer dollars should not be funding these injuries to our children. And we pay for it twice. We pay for it through the SNAP program, and…”
RFK Jr., Sec. Brooke Rollins hold press conference on MANA, SNAP waivers | Uploaded June 11, 2025 | 07:27-07:42
“The SNAP program [aims] to get all of the unhealthy food off of SNAP.”
RFK Jr., Sec. Brooke Rollins hold press conference on MANA, SNAP waivers | Uploaded June 11, 2025 | 07:37-22:01
“We have a Secretary of Agriculture of usda, Brooke Rollins, who has the courage and gumption to actually do what people have been talking…”
RFK Jr., Sec. Brooke Rollins hold press conference on MANA, SNAP waivers | Uploaded June 11, 2025 | 07:53-08:08
“We're shrinking the Dietary Guidelines from what President Biden gave us. 453 pages that reflect all of the industry interference and…”
RFK Jr., Sec. Brooke Rollins hold press conference on MANA, SNAP waivers | Uploaded June 11, 2025 | 09:34-09:50
“We're going to give people a four nutritionist, doctors, physicians, school lunch, programs of the military, dietary guidelines that are…”
RFK Jr., Sec. Brooke Rollins hold press conference on MANA, SNAP waivers | Uploaded June 11, 2025 | 09:50-10:05
“Two of them have made it now to the finish line. I want to thank you, Governor Sanders, for not only applying for the waiver than doing the…”
RFK Jr., Sec. Brooke Rollins hold press conference on MANA, SNAP waivers | Uploaded June 11, 2025 | 10:57-11:13
“Some of the states are trying to get rid of candies and sodas [from SNAP].”
RFK Jr., Sec. Brooke Rollins hold press conference on MANA, SNAP waivers | Uploaded June 11, 2025 | 22:06-22:10
“Most of the states have targeted sodas exclusively [for removal from SNAP].”
RFK Jr., Sec. Brooke Rollins hold press conference on MANA, SNAP waivers | Uploaded June 11, 2025 | 22:09-22:15
“We're going to make the dietary guidelines so people are getting whole food, they're getting real food.”
RFK Jr., Sec. Brooke Rollins hold press conference on MANA, SNAP waivers | Uploaded June 11, 2025 | 22:33-22:39
“We're going to take ultra processed foods off the menus.”
RFK Jr., Sec. Brooke Rollins hold press conference on MANA, SNAP waivers | Uploaded June 11, 2025 | 22:38-22:42
“We're going to address the added sugars in the foods.”
RFK Jr., Sec. Brooke Rollins hold press conference on MANA, SNAP waivers | Uploaded June 11, 2025 | 22:43-22:48
“Those dietary guidelines are important because they govern ultimately and they drive the school lunch programs, they drive the meals in the…”
RFK Jr., Sec. Brooke Rollins hold press conference on MANA, SNAP waivers | Uploaded June 11, 2025 | 22:48-23:01
“Our function is, is to use the best science to tell them the kind of generalized guidelines of what they should be looking for.”
RFK Jr., Sec. Brooke Rollins hold press conference on MANA, SNAP waivers | Uploaded June 11, 2025 | 27:52-28:01
“The food for school lunch programs is sourced locally.”
RFK Jr., Sec. Brooke Rollins hold press conference on MANA, SNAP waivers | Uploaded June 11, 2025 | 28:08-28:15
“We put an end to all dangerous antifunction studies.”
RFK Jr., Sec. Brooke Rollins hold press conference on MANA, SNAP waivers | Uploaded June 11, 2025 | 33:53-34:02