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Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson.

And today is Friday, November 15th, 2024.

This is the excerpt.

Today, Trump continues filling out his cabinet, plus how voters blame the Biden-Harris administration for inflation and whether that was fair. And the

onion has acquired Info Wars. President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his next Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Kennedy spent the majority of the 2024 campaign as an independent candidate, but dropped out and endorsed Trump.

He became a de facto advisor on public health after joining the campaign, spinning off the catchphrase,

make America healthy again from Trump's trademark slogan.

Kennedy has a reputation for being critical of vaccines

and questioning the origin of the COVID-19 virus.

He is perhaps best known for spreading unfounded claims

about a link between childhood vaccines and autism.

Kennedy has also proposed the removal of fluoride from drinking water.

The chemical has been added to U.S. water since 1945 to help prevent tooth decay

and is one of the most common ways to prevent cavities.

But drinking water is also regulated at the local level, which could limit Kennedy's influence.

Trump yesterday also named Todd Blanche, a lawyer

who represented him aggressively in his New York Hush Money trial, to serve as Deputy Attorney General,

Jay Clayton, former chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission during his first term

as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and former Republican Congressman

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