The vaccine skeptic's nomination is uncertain, though some Senate Republicans lined up to praise him and Trump

President-elect Donald Trump named Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his next Secretary of Health and Human Services, among other picks on Thursday.

Kennedy, an environmental lawyer, is known for his misleading and false claims on vaccines, including repeated assertions that vaccines are linked to autism.

Trump is expected to make Matt Gaetz his attorney general and Marco Rubio his secretary of state, and place Tulsi Gabbard, Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller in key posts.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been angling for a role in the Trump administration since he endorsed the president-elect in August.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is expected to be tapped by President-elect Donald Trump as his pick for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

President-elect Donald Trump tapped Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

President-elect Donald Trump will nominate the anti-vaccine activist and environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of Health and Human Services.

Environmental lawyer and antivaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed to be an “honest public servant” if he gets confirmed as the head of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). “Together we will clean up corruption,

One person said having an anti-vaxxer like Kennedy lead the Cabinet department is "like naming a flat-earther to lead NASA."

In the hours after President-elect Donald Trump announced that vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was his pick for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, mixed reactions began rolling in from the senators needed to support his confirmation.