Augustus Pallante

Draining the swamp is a mandate, and we have an obligation to deliver. Entrenched interests have exercised power in Washington under both parties for decades. President Trump and I intend to keep fighting until the American people—not corporate influence—drive our health policies. I stand firmly behind President Trump and the historic reforms we are advancing together. In less than two years, this administration has rewritten federal dietary guidelines to emphasize real food, secured commitments from major food companies to remove petroleum-based synthetic dyes and other additives, launched systematic reviews of chemicals already in our food supply, and proposed requiring companies to notify the FDA before introducing ingredients they independently deem safe. These are concrete steps toward accountability that Americans demanded. We have hundreds of other accomplishments but there's still more work to do. We must finish food-ingredient reform, advance our work on ultra-processed foods, and put children’s health at the center of federal policy. I will keep pressing those priorities across this administration and work with anyone in either party who will help deliver them. The American people deserve a government that puts their health first. President Trump gave me a mandate to put prevention at the center of health care and end the chronic disease epidemic to Make America Health Again.

In 2002, a local TV news investigation exposed a CDC study that found babies exposed to mercury in their vaccines were 2.5 times more likely to develop autism. The study was stamped "confidential, do not copy or release." Then the CDC released a different version, and the autism signal was gone. 🧵

RFK Jr. says a CIA funded experiment showed how far some Americans would go when ordered by authority figures to hurt another person. But he says the most important lesson came from those who stood up and refused to obey. “During the 1950s and 1960s, the CIA had a program called MKUltra, and they were looking for ways to manipulate individuals and populations to make them compliant and obedient.” “And one of the experiments they funded was an experiment at Yale, and it’s called the Milgram Experiment.” “They got a Yale professor named Stanley Milgram and he would bring subjects in from every walk of American life… He would put them at a table, and he would say, ‘When you turn this dial, there's a guy in the next room who's strapped to a chair, and he's going to get an electric shock.’” “The guy who was running the experiment came out in a white lab coat with all of these vestures of authority on him and he would say, ‘Turn it up.’” “They would turn it up, and they’d hear the person screaming and crying and begging.” “A lot of times they began crying because they didn’t want to do it. They didn’t wanna hurt the person in the next room.” “But nevertheless, when they were ordered to by this supposed doctor, they did it anyway.” “67% of the people turned it all the way up to where it was marked potentially lethal.” “The good news is that 33% got up and walked out.” “These were the people who said, ‘We’re not going to obey undeserving authorities when they order us to do something that we know is against our values.’”