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Robert F Kennedy Jr has been nominated by Donald Trump to be the next US health secretary, a post that oversees everything from medical research to food safety and public welfare programmes.

Kennedy named FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, which oversees food safety, as a key target for dissolution.

He said at a rally in Arizona earlier this month that he plans to fire and replace 600 employees at the NIH - which oversees vaccine research - as soon as Trump takes the White House.

Further stirring uncertainty, Trump has said he’d like to eliminate the Department of Education — which oversees student loan policies — a goal shared by many Republicans.

While Hoover oversees day-to-day operations, Wasserman will continue taking the lead in generating revenue.