RFK Jr. says Trump has 'assured' him a job in the White House
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Sunday that former President Donald Trump has “assured” him a job in the White House, though which position has not been determined.
Kennedy, speaking to Fox News’ Martha MacCallum, said the Trump team has been “very, very accommodating to give me what I want.”
Kennedy, a presidential candidate-turned-Trump surrogate, was responding to comments by Trump’s transition co-chair Howard Lutnick, who told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins last week that Kennedy would not be secretary of Health and Human Services.
“That is not true. The campaign has walked back those statements by Howard Lutnick, and he himself has disavowed those statements,” Kennedy said.
Asked by MacCallum if he could be selected to be head of HHS, Kennedy said, “We don’t know what I’m going to do.”
ABC News reported last week that Kennedy has floated to Trump the [names of several people](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/rfk-jr-recommends-vaccine-skeptic-lead-hhs-115408893that he believes could lead the agency.
“I talked to the president yesterday and he asked me what I wanted, and I said we’re developing a proposal now," Kennedy said.
Kennedy added, "I want to be in the White House and he’s assured me that I’m going to have that. But I want to be in the position where I’m most effective to end the chronic disease epidemic and I’m confident that if I wanted to do HHS secretary, the president would fight like hell to make that happen.”
-ABC News' Will McDuffie