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“We’ll figure it out after that. But, you know, the whims of my life shouldn’t interrupt hers.”

Significant as the HHS role is, Kennedy would still find his powers curtailed by the limits of the agency’s reach — and potentially by the whims of his boss.

No one, however, has ever gone broke by betting that elected Republicans would ultimately cave to Trump and his whims.

Apparently on a whim, he ordered the withdrawal of American troops from Somalia, where they were involved in the war against the jihadist group al-Shabab - a decision reversed by the Biden administration.

But every state that codifies abortion rights in its constitution reinforces them against the whims of elected officials.