Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will face a Senate affirmation listening to on Wednesday on Capitol Hill as he appears to take over as President Donald Trump’s Well being and Human Companies secretary.
New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers has been one of many loudest and proudest supporters of Kennedy, as he has been entangled within the political course of, beginning with the preliminary bid for president. Kennedy broached Rodgers to be his working mate in the course of the 2024 presidential election – a second that was captured on the Netflix docuseries “Enigma.”
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Aaron Rodgers, left, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Getty Photographs)
“Retire and go into politics or play two or three more years,” he stated. “I definitely envisioned a life without football, and it wasn’t scary. I felt comfort in being able to move on at some point. But I love football. I want to keep playing. And I hated the way last year went. There’s still some unfinished business in New Jersey.”
Nonetheless, Rodgers was sturdy in his assist of Kennedy.
He stated on “The Pat McAfee Show” earlier this month that senators who had been going to query Kennedy had higher be prepared.
“Like, please, somebody try and get after him and just watch him absolutely mop the floor with any of these senators,” Rodgers stated. “You better come ready senators, come ready and try and see if you can pull one over on my boy, Bobby, because Bobby’s f—— smart, dude. And no notes, off the cuff, can handle his own pretty well, so excited for him to – and honestly so should everybody.”
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President Donald Trump’s nominee to be secretary of Well being and Human Companies, Robert Kennedy Jr., sits in a gathering with Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on Capitol Hill on Jan. 9, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Jon Cherry/Getty Photographs)
Rodgers touched on Kennedy’s initiative to “Make America Healthy Again.” The motion gave the impression to be kick-started this week when the Meals and Drug Administration banned purple meals dye as a result of potential most cancers danger.
“Like, if you spend a minute researching ingredients in products in the states compared to overseas, it’s disgusting,” the star quarterback stated. “It’s disgusting what they allow here, the levels that they allow here, products that are terrible for you, products they know are carcinogenic. So it’s going to [be] as he’s doing a service to everybody if you just let him and get the hell out of the way and stop trying to label him as whatever the f— they want to label him these days.
“He simply desires to ensure that all the things that’s being given to our youngsters is secure, all the things that we’re ingesting on a day-to-day foundation is secure, and he’s going to ‘Make America Healthy Again’ or goes to freaking die making an attempt.”
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Rodgers has not made any more statements ahead of Kennedy’s hearing on Wednesday, but all signs indicate he will be watching.
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