Meet RFK's Corporate Underlings

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Several top officials in the Department of Health and Human Services worked for the very corporate interests their boss claims to oppose.

by Julian Scoffield and Toni Aguilar Rosenthal
October 24, 2025

After ten months of Trump 2.0’s “health” policy, the health of the American public has only deteriorated. Resurgent (vaccine-preventable) disease, widespread care facility closures, mass layoffs of health care workers, and Medicaid cuts stand in direct contrast to the MAHA movement’s promises of lower costs and improved access to services.


But the administration isn’t just failing to improve our physical and financial well-being—its assault on public-health infrastructure threatens to exacerbate the very corporate capture it dubiously purported to root out.

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Who Does RFK Jr. Trust to Make America Healthy?
Take, for example, Kyle Diamantas. Reportedly Donald Trump Jr.’s hunting buddy, Diamantas is now the deputy commissioner for human foods at the Food and Drug Administration. Prior to joining the government, Diamantas was a corporate lawyer who defended Abbott Laboratories in 2022 for its key role in creating an infant formula crisis that left parents struggling to feed their sickened kids.

Given this recent history of helping Abbott evade consequences for endangering American children, Diamantas embodies everything the MAHA movement rhetorically opposes. And yet Kennedy has entrusted him with oversight of approximately 80 percent of the American food supply.

https://prospect.org/2025/10/24/meet-rfks-corporate-underlings/

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