CUTTING THE CORD
Months after eliminating the C.D.C. team that oversaw safety guidelines for birth control, R.F.K. Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services has fired all but one member of the 50-person Office of Population Affairs (O.P.A.). In addition to managing federal funding for much of the country’s reproductive-health services (including clinics such as Planned Parenthood), O.P.A. also runs an assisted-I.V.F. program for couples who can’t create their own embryos—making the decimation of the department a direct contradiction to the MAHA make-more-babies agenda. R.F.K. Jr. conveniently forgetting his own previously ascribed-to morals? We’re shocked!
YOU BUTTER BELIEVE IT
Sorry, vegans, vegetarians, and pescatarians. R.F.K. Jr. wants America eating steak again like it’s the 1950s! (Ideally served by an apron-clad housewife the moment her husband bellows, “Honey, I’m home!”) And it’s not just red meat he’s championing in the new U.S. dietary guidelines due later this year—it’s all saturated fats. We’re talking butter, cheese, cream, and just about anything that raises cholesterol and the risk of heart disease, the leading national cause of death. R.F.K. Jr. argues that saturated fats have been unfairly demonized for decades, claiming the real villains are refined carbs and ultra-processed foods. But his recommendation—outdated at best, dangerous at worst—suggests those fats should make up 10 percent of our daily calorie intake. (The American Heart Association, for the record, advises keeping that intake to less than 6 percent.) None of this is surprising from a man who is a self-professed fan of raw, unpasteurized milk.
WAIT TILL YOU HEAR THE NUZZI
A MAHA insider told the New York Post this week that news of journalist Olivia Nuzzi’s memoir “blindsided” R.F.K. Jr. and left his wife, Cheryl Hines, “in a state of shock and distress.” The two had apparently patched things up after last year’s scandal, in which the health secretary’s digital affair with the journalist—who had been covering his presidential campaign—was splayed across the tabloids. Nuzzi’s memoir, reportedly titled American Canto, will be published one month after Hines’s own memoir, Unscripted. One source wondered if this would spell disaster for R.F.K. Jr.’s position in the MAGA Cabinet. But if there’s anyone who can empathize with his predicament, it’s Don.
Carolina de Armas and Paulina Prosnitz are Junior Editors at Air Mail
