RFK Jr. Rolls Out First Stage of MAHA Agenda; Kash Patel’s Day One
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
A new movement is underway to fix some of the causes of childhood chronic disease. This is being led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In addition to his role with HHS, he’s also the head of the President’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission, which has influence over other departments and agencies. In other news, Kash Patel has now been sworn in as director of the FBI. And we’re seeing some of his first moves for the agency.
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| 0:00.0 | A new movement is underway to fix American health, especially some of the causes of childhood |
| 0:05.3 | chronic disease. |
| 0:06.9 | This is being spearheaded by the new Health and Human Services Secretary, RFK Jr., and |
| 0:11.6 | the creation of a Maha commission by President Trump. |
| 0:15.4 | Meanwhile, Kash Patel has now been sworn in as director of the FBI, and we're now seeing |
| 0:20.6 | some of his first moves for the |
| 0:22.0 | agency and they're big. And in other news, a bomb threat recently shut down the Kennedy Center. |
| 0:28.7 | The threat appeared to be aimed at Shen Yun performing arts, and this incident is exposing |
| 0:33.4 | the Chinese Communist Party's actions on U.S. soil to export its transnational repression. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm the Epic Times Senior investigative reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 0:50.8 | A new movement is underway to fix some of the causes of childhood chronic disease. This is being |
| 0:56.5 | led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. But in |
| 1:01.9 | addition to his role with HHS, he's also the head of the President's Make America Healthy Again |
| 1:07.9 | Commission, that's the Maha Commission, which has influenced over other |
| 1:12.0 | agencies and departments. And Trump created the Maha Commission through an executive order |
| 1:16.9 | on February 13, the same day RFK Jr. was sworn in. The order states, it shall be the policy |
| 1:23.3 | of the federal government to aggressively combat the critical health challenges facing our citizens, |
| 1:29.5 | including the rising rates of mental health disorders, obesity, diabetes, and other chronic diseases. |
| 1:35.9 | To do so, executive departments and agencies that address health or health care must focus on reversing |
| 1:42.8 | chronic disease. The Epic Times has more on what the |
| 1:46.0 | Maha Commission is set to do. It is tasked to explore contributing causes to childhood chronic diseases |
| 1:52.4 | such as the American diet, absorption of toxic materials, medical treatments, lifestyle, |
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